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Harmonia Mundi’s “two for one” reissue series brings Robert Taub’s 1998/90 Scriabin sonata cycle back into the catalog. Its high points are well worth your
Aside from the fact that these Liszt, Busoni, and Bach/Busoni works are based on “vocal forms” (according to the booklet notes), they add up to
Daniel Barenboim’s rhetorical, essentially pianistic approach to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 proves even more postured and self-aggrandizing throughout Book 2. The pianist applies added
The second of Giacinto Scelsi’s 12 piano suites, subtitled “The Twelve Minor Prophets”, here receives its first recording. Dating from 1930 when Scelsi was 25,
Bone dry sonics, colorless piano tone, dynamics ranging from mezzo-piano to mezzo-forte, plus spiky, prosaic, lifeless phrasing: That about sums up Alain Planès 1998 recording
Dejan Lazic is one of those pianists who personalizes everything that he does, somewhat like a German stage director who has to have a “concept”.
Faina Lushtak’s Russian training manifests itself over the course of roughly half of Chopin’s complete Mazurkas in regard to her big, juicy sonority, assertive fingers,
Having proved his Messiaen mettle in the Catalogue d’oiseaux and Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant Jesus, pianist Martin Zehn continues his complete survey of this composer’s
Pianist Markus Schirmer has long desired to juxtapose Ravel’s Miroirs and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and as it happens, these cycles make a stimulating
Aaron Copland’s three major large-scale piano works count among the composer’s greatest in any genre. Their jagged keyboard edges and austere lyricism best communicate in
