
Try to imagine music in which Respighi’s peppery orchestral idiom (transcribed by Granados) defines the lush, sweeping sections and where Debussy makes an obvious presence
The booklet accompanying this release reproduces each of the Goya etchings that inspired the 24 individual pieces within Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s solo-guitar suite, 24 Caprichos de
The late composer/pianist Hans Otte’s extended, 12-movement solo piano work Das Buch der Klänge (The Book of Sounds) skillfully toes the thin line between stark
Back in the 1970s the International Piano Library issued an LP with Ferruccio Busoni’s complete disc recordings on one side, and the other side featuring
David Hurwitz may have scared Classicstoday.com readers away from Boulez’s piano music when he reviewed Paavali Jumppanen’s recording of the Three Sonatas (type Q8692 in
Música Callada (Music of Silence) is a very special work, one of the most beautiful and elusive in the entire piano repertoire. It is extremely
Steven Osborne’s dazzling technique, musical intelligence, and attention to detail merit serious attention throughout his complete Ravel solo piano music cycle. In Gaspard de la
Liszt’s Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” from Meyerbeer’s Le Prophete is one of the Romantic organ repertoire’s pillars, yet
With this release Ian Hobson launched a complete Chopin cycle in anticipation of the composer’s 2010 bicentennial. As a result of chronological programming, Volume 1
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Percy Grainger’s death, APR has brought out a five-disc compilation that contains the pianist’s complete 78-rpm recordings, many of