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Though recordings of J.S. Bach’s English Suites are hardly in short supply, veteran harpsichordist Bob van Asperen offers another distinguished performance worthy of consideration, regardless
At 23, pianist Jonathan Biss seems to have his career cards well stacked, studying with Leon Fleisher at the Curtis Institute, garnering a 2002 Gilmore
All of the performances here are reissued on CD for the first time and largely testify to the late Bruce Hungerford’s persuasive powers as a
The name Cécile Ousset may not be on the tip of pianophiles’ tongues when it comes to recommending modern-day Chopin recordings. Yet her excellent 1986/87
Stephen Kovacevich concludes his EMI Beethoven cycle at the beginning, so to speak, with the composer’s first three sonatas. Listeners seeking classical restraint or surface
Pianistically speaking Olga Kern boasts solid-steel fingers and a powerful sonority to match, yet her efforts to make her interpretations interesting don’t ring true. In
One of the hardest working pianists in the business, William Wolfram is nothing if not a consummate professional–an artist whose world-class technique, beautifully modulated sonority,
Antti Siirala doesn’t interpret Brahms’ F minor sonata so much as he defoliates it. Scrupulous to a fault, Siirala irons out the music’s craggy contours,
Jean Lauxerois begins his notes to Marc Coppey’s recording of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites by enumerating the many reasons why yet another version of these
Freddy Kempf’s Chopin Etudes largely eschew the willful mannerisms that pockmarked his accounts of the same composer’s Ballades. Yet some of his rubatos still seem
