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The concept of musical piano portraits based upon or inspired by specific people or subjects purportedly unites the works Bruce Levingston assembles for this recital.
Pianist Valentina Igoshina may be Warner Classics’ answer to Harmonia Mundi’s Olga Kern, with her relative youth, good looks, and Russian heritage, as well as
New recordings of Hindemith’s 1942 contrapuntal keyboard tour-de-force Ludus Tonalis are few and far between, and they tend not to stay in print. Great recordings
The god of inspiration sprints hand in hand with Garrick Ohlsson as the pianist nears completion of his Beethoven sonata cycle. The present disc opens
BIS’s complete edition of the late Gyorgy Ligeti’s piano music restores both of Fredrik Ullén’s single-disc Ligeti releases, respectively issued in 1996 and 1998. Ullén
RCA resurrects Gerhard Oppitz’s late-1980s solo Brahms cycle as a budget boxed set, an enticing marketing ploy that nevertheless will not bump up these generally
With their undeniable charm and modest technical demands, Schubert’s waltzes must have delighted amateur pianists who played them at home back in the days when
If you set out to record vulgar, perverse, and self-serving Mozart piano interpretations, at least be fun, or entertain, like Glenn Gould did. Unfortunately, Mikhail
All nine Beethoven/Liszt symphony transcriptions are difficult to play. The most difficult one? That’s hard to say, although experts in the field waver between the
Few pianists take on (let alone know about) George Enescu’s First Sonata, a work jam-packed with creativity and sophisticated invention. Perhaps they neglect it because
