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Pianist Adam Harasiewicz won the 1955 Warsaw Chopin Competition, beating out second place winner Vladimir Ashkenazy. Yet while Ashkenazy’s international career blossomed, Harasiewicz kept a
Stefan Vladar’s graceful, meditative, well voiced, and intelligently ornamented rendition of the Bach Goldberg Variations Aria sets a promising tone for the 30 Variations and
Haiou Zhang plays Liszt with sympathy, affection, and technique to burn. Although Liszt allowed his interpreters textual leeway, the composer also took lots of trouble
Here’s proof that one can cobble together a varied and representative Balakirev recital without including his masterpiece Islamey. Danny Driver’s performance of the four-movement B-flat
This release confirms Jeremy Denk’s growing reputation as a pianist and Bach interpreter of world-class stature. His readings of the A minor, D major, and
Michael Korstick may not be a colorist or poetic aristocrat on the level of other pianists who’ve recorded the second book of Liszt’s Années de
Ugh! So slow! were Vladimir Horowitz’s reactions to Claudio Arrau’s measured, ruminative Beethoven selections featured here. Once you accept the Chilean pianist’s unhurried, Furtwänglerian aesthetic,
It is always fascinating to discover the first steps of a great performer, before he found the unique voice that made his fame. Unlike most
Whoever curated the two-disc compilation in Universal Classics’ Steinway Legends set devoted to Claudio Arrau did an outstanding job, notwithstanding the fact that the early-1950s
Muzio Clementi’s three Op. 40 Sonatas were published in 1802, and in them you can readily hear those qualities that lead directly to Beethoven. For
