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The burly, variegated, expressive terrain of Schumann’s F-sharp minor sonata provides a vast playground for Evgeni Kissin’s big technique and slightly antsy temperament. His penchant
Referring in his booklet notes to Denis Matthews’ 1942 recording of Mozart’s A major K. 488 concerto, Roger Beardsley writes that “some may find it
In 1985, Bach’s tercentenary year, two independent scholars investigated a manuscript held by the Yale University Library copied by one Johann Gottfried Neumeister and containing
From the heavy-handed, invariant version of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations coupled with some non-dancelike Bagatelles, it is clear that Grete Sultan not only lacks idiomatic understanding
APR’s second volume devoted to Cor de Groot’s early recordings unearths some real rarities. A 1937 Beethoven Appassionata, for example, stems from a privately made
The excerpts from Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes recorded for Hungaroton in 1954 and 1956 are not to be confused with Cziffra’s 1957/58 EMI versions of the
Vladimir Feltsman dispels the notion of Chopin’s Nocturnes as musical portraits of dreamy landscapes by his ardent, at times aggressive projection of the composer’s operatically
Debussy’s characterization of Grieg’s short piano pieces as “bon-bons filled with snow” is happily contradicted by Kyoko Tabe’s crisp, purposeful pianism. She projects the lyric
Ignaz Friedman’s boundless technique, juicy tone, and larger-than-life temperament truly justify his standing alongside other so-called Golden Age piano legends such as Hofmann, Rachmaninov, Lhevinne,
Twenty-eight-year-old pianist Gergely Bogányi’s Chopin recital proves a hit and miss affair. The disc opens with its biggest hit: a Fourth Ballade that moves in
