

At her peak, pianist Annie Fischer could let loose in front of an audience in ways that her studio recordings do not consistently reveal. This

As in his previous Beethoven/Liszt symphony recordings, Yury Martynov approaches the Ninth like piano music rather than as a piano transcription of an orchestral score,

Erik Satie’s strange little piano piece Vexations begins with a

As with his previous two solo Naxos releases, Boris Giltburg’s all-Rachmaninov recital is artistically up and down. There’s no doubt that he can navigate Rachmaninov’s

A brief written statement prefaces Andrew Tyson’s recording of Chopin’s Op. 28 Préludes that cites the tension between spontaneity and craft running through these pieces.

In 2004 Ivory Classics saluted pianist Nadia Reisenberg’s centenary with

The suits at Sony BMG deserve our gratitude for restoring

About a decade separates Jeni Slotchiver’s second “Busoni The Visionary” release from the present third volume. Her solid technique and innate empathy for the composer’s

At his best, Raffi Besalyan’s formidable, assured technique and rich, varied sonority serves Rachmaninov well. The authority and sweep that he brings to the C-sharp

In 2009 Capriccio brought out a four-CD compilation featuring pianist Holger Groschopp in a wide range of Ferruccio Busoni’s arrangements, transcriptions and paraphrases. Here is
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