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No question, folks: Mikhail Pletnev’s Scarlatti is all about the piano and piano playing. Would this virtuoso’s perfumed pedalings and stretched-to-the-max rubatos have curled Scarlatti’s
As Yevgeny Sudbin’s extremely thoughtful and well-written notes make clear, he’s as intelligent an artist as he is talented. Coming hard on the heels of
Taste, musicality, and extraordinary technical facility are among the consistent qualities of Frank Wallace’s performances, whether of his own compositions or those by other masters
To mark the 15th anniversary of Georges Cziffra’s death in 1994, EMI France presents a 40-CD space-saving, budget-priced boxed set encompassing all of the pianist’s
It’s a great time to be a piano fan, and anyone who feels that all of the great artists are dead really needs a reality
Ronald Brautigam’s strong sense of style, superb technique, and commanding personality continue to make waves in his latest Beethoven cycle installment. The fortepianist joins Schnabel
The piano music of Joseph Marx (1882-1964) epitomizes the Viennese “derriere-garde” by way of its unabashed allegiance to caloric chromatic harmonies and slightly cornball melodies
David Greilsammer’s “Fantasie_Fantasme” program assembles two centuries-worth of diverse piano compositions in a mirror-like progression. Mozart’s C minor Fantasy K. 475 is the centerpiece, sandwiched
Martin Helmchen appears to be an earnest and fairly solid Schubert player, whose main attribute is not getting in the way of the scores. Nor
Muza Rubackyte’s hearty, rhetorical handling of Franck’s thickly textured piano writing evokes her similar mastery in Liszt, which is a good thing. While her sonority
