
Previous Naxos releases testify to pianist Bernd Glemser’s sure command of Rachmaninov’s gnarly piano writing and Scriabin’s structural restlessness. So it comes as no surprise
Music and Arts has repackaged its reissue of Claude Frank’s late-1960s Beethoven Sonata cycle (originally released by RCA to tie in with the composer’s 1970
While the 1881 Erard Piano in the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments dates after Chopin’s death, it is quite similar to earlier models familiar to
The music world lost a highly acclaimed pianist, superb musician, and respected teacher when Andrew De Grado died in 1998, the result of a shock-induced
The big news about this recording of Alkan’s mammoth Concerto for Solo Piano can be found on the front cover, below the work title. It
Strange as it seems my college music library possessed the four Chopin Nocturnes cycles available on EMI in the late 1970s: Garrick Ohlsson, Alexis Weissenberg,
Pianist Mordecai Shehori has developed a steady New York following over the past two decades, along with a reputation for his colorful, sometimes idiosyncratic approach
Half of Volume 8 in Alain Kremski’s Gurdjieff/De Hartmann cycle contains less engaging music than other discs in this series–specifically the prayer tunes set to
Bartók is the invisible presence on this CD of (mostly) 20th century cello music by Hungarian composers since his stylistic fingerprints are on most of
Piano transcription buffs will have a field day with no less than 11 Minute Waltz arrangements from the heyday of romantic pianist/composers, plus 10 more