

Louis Lortie’s survey of the complete Années de Pèlerinage adds up to his finest Liszt playing on disc. The interpretations abound with new-found reserves of

Eldar Nebolsin’s Schubert playing is straightforward, intelligently musical, and technically superb. His mastery is such that he can afford to dispatch the Wanderer Fantasy’s notorious

Jacob Gade was a master of light music, and it would be very interesting to hear the orchestrations of as many of these pieces as

Originally issued by Collins Classics, this 1989 Granados and Falla recital features sensitive, idiomatic, and beautifully polished performances. While Cristina Ortiz does not consistently attain

Often heard as an accompanist, the Tokyo-born pianist Miku Nishimoto-Neubert takes center stage and proves herself a sensitive, polished Bach soloist, if not a consistently

It’s easy to understand why critics have favorably responded to Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart playing: He’s a flawless technician and a musician of great finesse, who

The press quotes adorning Georgian pianist Irma Issakadze’s Bach Partitas mention her in the same breath as Glenn Gould. To my ears, her penchant for

How happy pianist Elizabeth Herbin looks on the front and back covers, with a little bird perched on her finger. Her Schubert playing, however, doesn’t

This second volume in Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Haydn sonata cycle is every bit as outstanding as the first. As previously, he ornaments repeats liberally and observes

Record collectors may have encountered Martin Berkofsky via his two 1970s recordings of Max Bruch’s previously lost Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, although much
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