

Does Simon Rattle do anything consistently well aside from Szymanowski? I mean, for what music does he show a special affinity? What composers does he

There’s something lazy about these performances, as if conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin assumes that the gorgeous playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, with its fabled Rachmaninov tradition,

To make thrice familiar repertoire sound fresh and vibrant without resorting to eccentricity or distortion is easier said than done, yet the Turkish-born-Vienna-based pianist Emre

The American pianist Ruth Slenczynska celebrated her 95th birthday on

This is a useful release from a discographical standpoint in that it accounts for every Rachmaninov two-piano and one-piano-four-hands composition or arrangement. The Genova &

The Russian pianist Maria Grinberg (1908-1978) may be less familiar

Although keyboard connoisseurs have revered Sergei Babayan for decades, a recent association with Deutsche Grammophon appears to be broadening his audience, abetted by duo piano

In most compilations such as this, you are lulled into a comfortable place where the listening’s easy and the romantic atmosphere is high. Then, just

Although Shura Cherkassky’s unabashedly subjective and capricious style was out

American piano connoisseurs may be fleetingly aware of Rudolf Kerer
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