
Gisbert Schneider plays powerful, even relentless Bach. The two preludes and fugues feature uninhibited virtuosity at purposeful but never excessively hasty tempos. In the Passacaglia,
If you are set on having, as the disc’s promotional material claims, “all of Bach’s organ music for Christmas on a single CD,” then this
Here’s a handy way to acquire Bach’s entire organ Fantasias and Toccatas (either with or without Fugues appended), along with organ performances of the seven
Now here’s imaginative and illuminating programming for you: Bach’s D minor solo partita featuring its renowned Chaconne, followed by a pair of late-Romantic violin chaconnes
These previously unpublished German Radio broadcast recordings (all but one from 1967) capture Martha Argerich’s Chopin at its youthful peak: impetuous, rhapsodic, musically loaded for
Born in 1919 and still musically active as of this writing (2009), pianist Viktor Merzhanov may best be known as an international juror and teacher.
For the most part Vladimir Horowitz is on his best late-period form in this previously unreleased (and presumably unedited) Berlin concert from May 18, 1986,
According to Josef Hofmann, no single pianist could play each and every Chopin etude equally well. That certainly holds true with Luiza Borac. To be
I concluded my review of Nikita Magaloff’s 1954 Chopin B minor sonata remastered via Decca’s short-lived Heritage Reissue series (type Q8255 in Search Reviews) with
Bridge’s reissue of Nadia Reisenberg’s Westminster Chopin recordings included a bonus selection, the B minor sonata from the pianist’s live November 21, 1947 Carnegie Hall