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It’s not easy to make Rachmaninov’s prolix First Sonata cohere, yet not impossible. For example, Alexis Weissenberg’s gaunt tone, febrile temperament, and paragraphic sweep give
Maurice Greene (1696-1755), organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London; Composer and Organist to the Chapel Royal; Master of the King’s Musick. Maurice Greene, described contemporarily
Pianist Sergey Schepkin attracted much attention in the 1990s and early 2000s for his Ongaku recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Well-Tempered Clavier and Six Partitas.
Period-instrument keyboard performers, like organists, are severely constrained by the tone of their instruments. Too often we are asked to accept thin, ugly, inexpressive sonorities
Steven Osborne follows up his superb Mussorgsky/Prokofiev Hyperion release with more Russian music, this time by Medtner and Rachmaninov. He begins with Medtner’s two Op.
Recorded in 1983, Kenneth Gilbert’s Well-Tempered Clavier proudly stands the
The second volume in what one hopes will be a complete Brahms piano music cycle from Jonathan Plowright charges from the starting gate with engines
Samson François (1922-1970) was a brilliant yet mercurial pianist who
The 51-year-old Finnish composer, arranger, and pianist Jouni Somero has racked up a discography for Fc Records that is as impressively wide-ranging as it is
According to the booklet notes Wilhelm Middelschulte was a friend,
