
MSR Classics presents a generous four-disc overview of popular American pianist Leonard Pennario’s 1950-1958 recordings for the Capitol label. Newly transferred from the original session
Like MDG’s first Conlon Nancarrow volume, a Bösendorfer grand piano fit with an Ampico Player Piano Mechanism is used to reproduce the selection of Chopin
Collectors who’ve followed the first four volumes in Siegbert Rampe’s Mozart cycle will more-or-less know what to expect on this fifth go-round. It’s not every
Pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff’s technique and artistic temperament match Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux well. Textural clarity and control operates on a more refined and variegated level than in
For the first time, all of Alicia de Larrocha’s solo Schumann repertoire for Decca is brought together in one release. Three items new to CD
With this three-CD set, Paul Lewis leapfrogs to the midpoint of his projected Beethoven sonata cycle for Harmonia Mundi. Unlike András Schiff’s strictly chronological progression,
And Naxos keeps pulling young keyboard comers out of the woodwork. The label’s eighth Scarlatti sonata volume showcases Soyeon Lee, who won Concert Artist Guild’s
As a self-taught teenage pianist, Henry Cowell experimented with his instrument, striking the keys with his fists and forearms, or strumming and scratching the strings
This collection embraces some of the most craggy, uncompromising, and frankly charmless American piano music from the 20th century’s first half, played with concentrated authority
The craggy, neo-Romantic style of Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) is often mentioned alongside that of his close friend and contemporary Charles Ives. In contrast to Ives’