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This new Alba disc offers a generous if not exhaustive survey of Sibelius’ works for violin and piano, a combination to which the composer devoted
Friedrich Gulda recorded the cycle of 32 Beethoven Sonatas twice: first for Decca in the 1950s, and a 1967 remake for the Austrian Amadeo label.
The Beethoven sonata cycle Daniel Barenboim recorded for EMI between 1966 and 1969 always struck me as the product of an artist attracted to the
Prokofiev’s Sixth Sonata may not match the Seventh’s war-horse status, yet it too has been served by many first-rate recordings, from umpteen Sviatoslav Richter versions
Dvorák’s piano works get little attention in relation to his better known orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic output, and even the best known of them,
Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831) was the first Polish pianist to achieve European fame and was a highly regarded performer in her day. Composer/pianists like Field and
No less celebrated than Ignaz Friedman’s epic Chopin Mazurka interpretations from September, 1930 are the nine Mendelssohn Songs without Words he set down at the
Few of Jorge Bolet’s later studio recordings hint at the poetic impulse, communicative immediacy, and scintillation revealed in these previously unpublished live Chopin performances dating
Chopin does not frequently figure in Daniel Barenboim’s piano repertoire, and I suspect that this composer’s idiom is an acquired rather than natural affinity for
All the selections on this disc stem from recitals Sviatoslav Richter gave at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1964 and 1966. Certain independent labels boast excellent
