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The collaboration of Cluytens and François in Ravel’s two piano […]
These things—meaning whole programs of so-called “encores”—are fundamentally pointless: after
In a recent lecture, Liszt biographer Alan Walker explained how Liszt essentially invented the piano recital, with the idea that a program should have a
If you don’t believe the critical accolades praising 18-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor’s astonishing command of the instrument and vivid interpretive gifts, you will when you’re
This release was made as a musical complement to an exhibit of French Impressionist art, “Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890”, a joint venture of the
This previously unreleased Schwetzinger Festival program from June 15, 1994 captures the 79-year-old Sviatoslav Richter in one of his better recitals from an erratic year.
Steven Osborne’s dazzling technique, musical intelligence, and attention to detail merit serious attention throughout his complete Ravel solo piano music cycle. In Gaspard de la
All three violin sonatas on this disc represent their respective composers in their formative years. Bernstein’s 1940 Sonata dates from his early twenties, and might
Daphnis is an iconic work for this orchestra, which has recorded it complete on at least four previous occasions, twice for Munch and once each
Walter Gieseking’s commercial studio recordings of Beethoven’s G major and Schumann’s A minor concertos only hint at the energy and brio that these Cologne broadcast
