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Manuel Blancafort’s exquisite, unpretentious keyboard idiom will enchant anyone who loves this composer’s older, better-known colleague Mompou. In my review of Volume 1 in pianist
Volume 5 in Paolo Giacometti’s ongoing complete Rossini piano music cycle begins with the final six of the 24 “Quelques riens pour album” (Volume 4
If nothing else, you have to give Ekaterina Derzhavina credit for unhackneyed programming savvy. Giovanni Platti’s four-movement sonata contains ample opportunities for the pianist’s nimble
These Schumann performances duplicate a release on the defunct Revelation label (RV 10012). Yedang’s slightly fuller remasterings cannot disguise the mediocre sonics–rather, they actually amplify
With the exception of Chen Yi’s Duo Ye, a work that intelligently internalizes traditional Chinese motives within a decidedly modernist context, all the pieces on
On the evidence of the 1954/55 sessions reissued here, Nadia Reisenberg and Russian miniatures were well matched. Fifty years on, the pianist’s recording of Kabalevsky’s
In Beethoven’s C minor and F major Op. 10 sonatas, Maurizio Pollini’s superbly drilled fingers play up the energetic brio implied by the composer’s fast
If you’re looking for Rachmaninov’s Études-Tableaux in solid, professional, stylish, and inexpensive performances, this disc serves your needs well. And on occasion, pianist Vladimir Ovchinnikov
This solid effort from lutenist Axel Wolf features the soloist performing three of J.S. Bach’s works on a 14-course instrument. The playing features crisp, clean
Arnold Bax is better known for his symphonies and symphonic poems than for his surprisingly large solo piano output. The full bodied, grandiose textures he
