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Rumor has it that a beautiful piano sound follows Pascal Rogé from recording session to recording session. However, it must have taken him a while
Listening blind, so to speak, I’m baffled by those long, wandering canons with weird modal twists. A student exercise in need of editing? One section
There’s much more to Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues than meets the eye. Perhaps they make a deceptively arid impression upon casual sight-reading, yet pianists
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Debussy cycle for Chandos gets better with each new installment. Volume 3’s appropriately resonant yet warm, ample engineering improves upon the previous volumes’
Purists may raise an eyebrow or two over Mikhail Pletnev’s myriad textual changes, including pronounced extremes of dynamics, voicing, and phrasing throughout Mussorgsky’s Pictures at
I suspect this release is a dream come true for avid collectors of piano rarities. Although the complete flat disc recordings with Grieg, Saint-Saëns, and
The great British pianist Solomon ruled over his keyboard with iron hands clothed in mink gloves. Along with his refined technique and cultivated sonority, Solomon’s
Solomon was working his way through a Beethoven Sonata cycle for EMI when he suffered the stroke in 1956 that ended his career. The 18
What an interesting and inspired program Bennett Lerner has assembled for his fourth Debussy cycle volume! It would be perfect for a recital. Disc 1
Imagine this: Brahms’ wistful, long-lined lyricism years before Brahms was born; Schubert’s effortless melodies and off-the-wall modulations long before Schubert matured; Chopin-like roulades and decorations
