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The Dutch pianist and composer Frédéric Meinders (born 1946) has quietly yet steadily gained renown for his prolific output of piano transcriptions, which amount to
Hideyo Harada’s highly calculated, painstakingly detailed pianism seems best to digest in small doses, such as in her unusual yet compelling Grieg Lyric Pieces. However,
These live Beethoven Sonata BBC Broadcast transmissions from Queen Elizabeth Hall featuring Alfred Brendel (newly available courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s on demand reprint program) should not
The fifth book of Rossini’s “Sins of My Old Age” piano cycle consists of 12 pieces that abound with humor, pianistic ingenuity, and unexpected harmonic
Brilliant Classics’ boxed set devoted to Robert Schumann’s complete solo piano music draws from older and newer back-catalog offerings and maintains a generally high level
Born in 1984, the young Belgian pianist Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort has numerous prizes and international concerts to his credit, and he certainly seems positioned to deliver
In the late 1970s a handful of audiophile-aware labels experimented with direct-to-disc technology, bypassing the analog tape machine and feeding the recorded signal directly to
What a ridiculous concept! Zemlinsky made numerous arrangements of earlier works for Universal Edition at the turn of the 20th century. These were designed for
A self-produced CD release with a dorky title, the performer’s name virtually hidden from sight, no catalog number, and little distribution beyond the artist’s website
Alfred Cortot’s Chopin abounds with ecstasy, risk, idiosyncratic rubato, soaring melodic projection, and boundless nuance. A brilliant but erratic technician, Cortot was infamous for wrong
