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The pre-Bach keyboard composers featured in this program share an improvisatory sensibility and sense of playfulness that not only lend themselves to a modern concert
Oleg Marshev and the Liszt Sonata generally mesh well. The pianist meets the composer’s virtuosic challenges head on, fusing energy, bravura, and unassailable finger power.
Clara Haskil’s magnificent August 8, 1957 Salzburg Festival recital previously appeared on the Music and Arts label, and you can read my review of it
A large-scaled, imaginatively phrased, virile account of the “Pathétique” sonata begins the second double-CD installment of David Allen Wehr’s Beethoven cycle. With little help from
This all-Chopin recital hits and misses. Simon Trpčeski perceives the B-flat minor sonata’s first movement as display sections rather than a unified whole. You’ll notice,
With all of the uproar that the Joyce Hatto scandal has engendered, most critics, newsgroup posters, and other classical music authorities overlooked the possibility that
Well, as predicted, Joyce Hatto discs are doing a brisk business on eBay, and Concert Artist owner William Barrington-Coupe is rushing to take advantage of
Byron Schenkman’s solid technique, warm tone, and sound musical instincts hold much to admire in the six Haydn sonatas he has chosen for this recital.
Max Reger’s Bach transcriptions for organ have little to do with the style and spirit of the composer’s original works for the instrument. The Chromatic
Cellist Daniil Shafran (Brilliant transliterates his first name to Daniel) has become something of a cult figure, but his Russian recordings have been available only
