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Your guide to classical music online
Today’s quiz: Name a composer/pianist who grasps traditional Classical long forms well, loves his Uncle Bill (Evans that is), knows Copland like the back of
Mozart is on inspired form in these wonderful works, and so is Alfred Brendel. In the K. 533/494 Sonata, the pianist reaches levels of nuance,
Richard Strauss’ solo piano music dates from his teen years. Although the style often is derivative (warmed-over Mendelssohn, Weber, and Schumann) you can’t deny the
Nearly a decade after his Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medal victory, Jon Nakamatsu still strikes me as a solid, dependable, thoroughly professional, yet
Federico Mompou’s Musica Callada (Music of Silence) consists of 28 pieces grouped into four books, ranging in length from less than a minute to slightly
Period-instrument buffs will find more than passing interest in Liv Glaser’s Clementi recital in that she employs a replica of a 1799 Longman and Clementi
Most of the short cycles featured on the first volume in Naxos’ complete Martinu piano music survey represent the composer’s early style, where French effervescence,
This disc is a gem, yet it’s also one of those releases that you might overlook in the deluge of new, and frequently marginal, titles
Pierre Hantaï may not intend to record the complete Scarlatti sonatas, yet that doesn’t make him any less than the complete Scarlatti player–indeed, the Scarlatti
Nikolai Medtner’s Sonata-Reminiscenza (Op. 38 No. 1) and Sonata Tragica (Op. 39 No. 5) are components of the composer’s Op. 38 and Op. 39 “Forgotten
