

Best known for her advocacy of Latin-American composers, Mirian Conti’s first project for the newly launched Steinway & Sons label is given over to Chopin’s

Alessandra Ammara gives us the best recording of Schumann’s Album für die Jugend since Michael Endres’ reference version. She plays these teaching pieces like real

Canadian pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear has been amassing quite a bit of attention lately, and deservedly so, judging from these vital, communicative, and intelligently

For his solo-debut CD release, 21-year-old pianist Joseph Moog offers an unusual and stunningly executed program. It opens with three Joseph Jongen works that might

As a Lisztian, the Paris-born/Quebec-based pianist Patrice Laré navigates these familiar works with reasonable technical flair and idiomatic fluency. The problem is that the drab,

Those that claim Muzio Clementi’s Gradus ad Parnassum to be little more than a collection of 100 boring, pedagogical exercises simply do not know the

I’ve always had a soft spot for Andrei Gavrilov’s 1993 Goldberg Variations (available again courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reprint program), despite the fact that this

The glue that binds this CD together is Oscar, meaning that all three composers featured here composed Academy Award-winning film scores. Fortunately Korngold’s youthful and

Evgeny Kissin is an interpreter who tends to shoot from the hip in the big Romantic masterpieces, resulting in many moments of genius rubbing up

Evgeny Kissin does an excellent job with this well-planned recital, featuring three very different Russian composers active in the first decades of the 20th century:
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