

While Pierre-Laurent Aimard interprets certain areas of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire with incandescent mastery (Ives, Carter, Messiaen, Ligeti, and Boulez, for example) he’s unpredictable in

No sooner did Barry Douglas undertake a Brahms cycle for Chandos than he begins this one devoted to Schubert, starting with the last sonata and

A faculty member at Eastern Michigan University, pianist Joel Schoenhals first attracted my attention with two unusual and brilliantly executed CD releases: one devoted to

In 2013 Jonathan Biss launched a series of concerts titled “Under the Influence”, examining Robert Schumann, composers who influenced him, and composers that he influenced.

Landscape Preludes consists of 12 piano pieces composed between 2003 and 2007 by 12 different composers from New Zealand. They were commissioned by the New

This is Joshua Bell’s first recording of any of Bach’s music. As you might imagine, the playing is expert, for the most part, and Bell

The puff piece in the form of an introductory booklet

The Belgian pianist Arthur de Greef (1862-1940) made his mark

Although Dmitri Kabalevsky’s concertos and sonatas hardly lack for good recordings, few pay attention to his prolific output of shorter solo piano pieces. That’s a

Florian Uhlig’s Ravel cycle is “completer than complete”, so to
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