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While others may bring more panache and kinetic sweep to the Rachmaninov Corelli Variations and Prokofiev Second sonata than Garrick Ohlsson, his rhythmic discipline, strong
Stephen Hough always has attempted to fuse the best of “old-school” Chopin traditions with a modernist’s view of textual accuracy. For example, Hough’s melodic projection
This is not quite a new release. Ragna Schirmer’s Chopin Op. 10 Etudes originally appeared on a Berlin Classics disc alongside the Etude Fantasy and
EMI’s back-catalog harbors enough riches and rarities from which to assemble a consistently first-rate boxed set of Chopin’s complete works. But you’d never know that
We badly need a great Haydn sonata cycle on a modern instrument, and on evidence here Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s promises to be just the ticket. It’s
The pianist formerly known as Yundi Li now reappears as Yundi, and with a new label behind him. On the basis of his strong, incisive
This is not one of Yevgeny Sudbin’s better recordings, despite some very beautiful playing in purely pianistic terms. The coupling is imaginative and well-designed to
As with his previous Haydn release for Profil, Evgeni Koroliov presents a full-bodied, rounded, and often Romantic conception of this composer’s music. The little two-movement
Here is one of the stronger entries in Brilliant Classics’ comprehensive, albeit uneven complete Chopin boxed set, now released as a single CD. Dutch pianist
If Andreas Staier’s harpsichord–reconstructed after an “authentic” 1734 Hass model–hardly equals the unabashed multi-stop splendor of Wanda Landowska’s “inauthentic” custom-built Pleyel, its ample range of
