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If you have the opportunity to sample this disc before buying it, play track number 5. You’ll first hear a wistful waltz theme, harmonized in
David Korevaar’s big, full-throated pianism perfectly suits Brahms’ variation sets, with their thick textures and orchestrally inspired sonorities. In contrast to the long arcs and
Graupner rocks! Well, not really, and somehow that didn’t come out sounding like I hoped it would; but if you’ve been following my reviews of
Combine Chopin’s scinitllating virtuoso piano writing with the lush textural doublings and orchestrally inspired chord deployment Schumann favored, and you’ll get an inkling of what
In light of Benita Meshulam’s colorful, bracingly idiomatic Albeniz and Granados recordings, it comes as no surprise that she’s also technically and temperamentally at home
The three Nocturnes and Four Pieces date from Rachmaninov’s teen years. Already the composer displays a knack for rich textures that encompass the entire range
Claudio Arrau’s famous 1978 traversal of the Chopin Nocturnes was recorded at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and originally released on LP in Philips’ Trésors Classiques series.
This boxed set gathers John Field’s pioneering piano Nocturnes alongside all 21 of Chopin’s works in the genre, together with interesting nocturnes by their contemporaries,
For pianism alone, Marc-André Hamelin’s effortless proficiency throughout Albéniz’s demanding Iberia suite sets new standards in this work. The composer’s elaborate textures never fail to
The first eight selections listed above constitute a long-out-of-print all-Liszt release Earl Wild recorded for EMI in 1973, now reissued on CD for the first
