PIANO SONATAS, VOL. 10

Idil Biret often favors a clipped, linearly oriented approach to Beethoven’s sonatas that superficially evokes her mentor Wilhelm Kempff, yet without his luminous tone, subtle

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HOROWITZ PLAYS LISZT

To commemorate Liszt’s 200th birthday year, this release gathers together all of Vladimir Horowitz’s Liszt recordings controlled by the Sony/BMG group and previously issued by

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Godowsky: Java Suite/Petersson

There’s no question that Carl Petersson’s fingers can efficiently dispatch the elaborate intricacies of Leopold Godowsky’s Java Suite; yet his literal, texturally monochrome, frequently unimaginative

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Goldbergs On Piano

Since Virgin Classics didn’t have a piano version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in its catalog, it apparently fell to Nicholas Angelich to put things right.

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