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There’s some fine playing here. In the First concerto Alexander Gavrylyuk displays impressive technique and a remarkably light touch in the work’s many quick passages.
It’s a nice idea to combine bits of the three suites from both ballets on a single disc to give listeners a taste of the
Anna Vinnitskaya has a formidable technique: the crazy cadenza in the first movement of the Prokofiev holds no terrors for her, and she shapes it
Behold Lang Lang’s Sony Classical debut recital, recorded live in Vienna and available on DVD, in Blu-Ray format with special added 3-D performances, on high-grade
In the late 1970s a handful of audiophile-aware labels experimented with direct-to-disc technology, bypassing the analog tape machine and feeding the recorded signal directly to
While others may bring more panache and kinetic sweep to the Rachmaninov Corelli Variations and Prokofiev Second sonata than Garrick Ohlsson, his rhythmic discipline, strong
This is a great disc. Prokofiev was as unlikely a composer as we might possibly imagine to write successful chamber music for strings. Even his
On paper this looked like a great idea: Kissin knows his Prokofiev. Indeed, he’s recorded the Third concerto at least twice previously, if never outstandingly,
Bridge’s reissue of Nadia Reisenberg’s Westminster Chopin recordings included a bonus selection, the B minor sonata from the pianist’s live November 21, 1947 Carnegie Hall
These are fabulous performances, the coupling is more than generous (a full 80 minutes of music), and the concertos are so different from Toradze/Gergiev that
