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The panache and poetry distinguishing Jorge Bolet’s finest concert performances rarely emerge in these frankly enervated readings, available again via Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reissue program. True,
The best performances in Eric Le Sage’s promising, albeit uneven two-CD Schumann release for RCA (never issued in the U.S.) augured well for the launch
Angela Hewitt and Schumann’s First Piano Sonata date back at least to 1982, when the young pianist recorded it for the tiny Canadian label Damzell.
For technical finesse and ensemble sophistication alone, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Artemis Quartet set new standards in a field packed with worthy Schumann
These classic performances require no additional accolades from me. They were great; they remain great. Alfred Cortot recorded the Schumann concerto twice electrically, and this
Claudio Abbado hasn’t lost his touch in Brahms, as this is a very fine performance of the Serenade No. 1. His high-energy and lively pace
Here’s another outstanding volume in Hyperion’s Schumann song series. It’s important not only for the repertoire, which includes two sets of four duets–Op. 34 and
You can understand the “good idea at the time” concept: how illuminating and affecting to present a program interspersing Schumann’s ultimate love-song cycle with readings
At 36:43, Evgeni Koroliov’s Kreisleriana times out to be one of the longest on disc. This is not so much because of slow tempos as
This is a puzzling release. Joseph James, the arranger, isn’t a person but a duo: Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown. What they have
