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Technically speaking, Wen-Yu Shen plays extremely well for his 17 years. As a musician, however, he’s still a work in progress. Although he easily commands
Every new recording by Krystian Zimerman is something of an event, so it’s sobering to realize that these two performances, recorded in 1997 and 2000
Pianist Beata Bilinska has everything it takes for world-class Rachmaninov playing: a big technique, a natural affinity for the composer’s idiom, and a huge, bronze
MDG’s biography of pianist Friedrich Höricke (born 1963) stresses his affinity for big-sized Romantic pianism, a category where Rachmaninov’s transcriptions hold forth like the king
The title and repertoire suggest a kind of modified Piano’s Greatest Hits with Garrick Ohlsson at the keyboard. It’s only when you break the shrink-wrap
Compared to many of his contemporaries, much of Artur Rodzinski’s long, fruitful career is relatively undocumented on CD, so this is a welcome release. In
In a catalog crowded with superb performances of Rachmaninov’s First and Third concertos, Nikolai Lugansky’s world-class pianism and Sakari Oramo’s solid, sparkling support (thanks of
Hot on the heels of a superb CD devoted to Shostakovich’s Theater Music, pianist Rustem Hayoudinoff turns his attention to Rachmaninov’s complete piano preludes. Hayoudinoff’s
By releasing recordings just because it can, rather than because it should, Chandos is making a classic “big label” mistake with its ongoing CD series
Polyansky’s appalling Rachmaninov series comes to an end (hopefully) with this thoroughly second rate recording of the First Symphony. There’s no need to waste much
