
This 1982 Gottschalk recital originally was issued on LP by the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, and hopefully it will reach a wider audience via Bridge’s
Although Volume 8 of Hyperion’s complete Gottschalk survey contains lots of salonish dross in relation to the more visionary works featured on earlier volumes, pianist
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was one of the musical wonders of his era, a time that also produced the Civil War. He was the first American
Volume 6 maintains the same impressive standards set in Philip Martin’s five previous Gottschalk releases on Hyperion. The pianist’s full-bodied, liquid sonority, together with his
Cecile Licad may have been groomed under Rudolf Serkin’s exacting tutelage, but her visceral, exuberant Gottschalk playing evokes Vladimir Horowitz’s diabolical art. It’s not just
Not all of the works included in Volume 7 of Philip Martin’s ongoing Gottschalk survey count among the composer’s more inspired creations. Still, the pianist
To be blunt, New York-based pianist Beth Levin’s live Schubert Wanderer Fantasy shouldn’t have been released. Her rhythmic mauling in the outer movements turns the