CLEMENTI; MUZIO

Clementi: Piano Duets

Jed Distler

Clementi’s piano ensemble works may not plumb the virtuosic or harmonic depths characterizing his best solo piano sonatas, yet you can’t deny the composer’s unerring

Margaret Wacyk piano recital

Jed Distler

I had no idea that a Steinway D concert grand could sound so dry, flinty, and dynamically constricted until I heard this drably reproduced disc.

Clementi: Keyboard works/Zilberstein

Jed Distler

Lilya Zilberstein’s Clementi recital gives the impression of a superbly schooled, proficient pianist who can play these compositions to the highest professional standards without loving

Sioles Recital

Jed Distler

In my review of Christopher Szaja Sager’s Clementi recital on Hänssler, I wrote of the Op. 25 No. 5 sonata’s aching lyricism and pungent harmonies

GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY VOLUME 36: EMIL GILELS III

Jed Distler

Emil Gilels’ 1972 Brahms B-flat Concerto significantly differs from the pianist’s hard driving 1958 Chicago recording with Reiner. Tempos are slower, while the pianism stresses