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I must confess that along with the flute, trumpet, accordion, and glass harmonica, the bassoon is among the musical instruments I’d rather not spend an
Harold Arlen’s rich legacy of film, theater, and popular songs has long lent itself to popular piano stylings. To tie in with the composer’s 2005
There’s a wealth of excellent, stylistically varied Cuban concert music for the piano awaiting discovery by general audiences. That appears to be the message behind
I’m not sure the term “grab bag” best describes this well-chosen program of piano works inspired by American vernacular traditions. Be that as it may,
The 1907 Blüthner grand belonging to the piano collection of Michael and Patricia Frederick is of similar type to the Blüthner that Debussy owned and
Jeni Slotchiver’s musicianly pianism is largely at one with the lucid polyphony, strange harmonic allusions, and emotional restraint characterizing the first five of Busoni’s Six
Bartók’s spirit penetrates the aggressively jagged terrain outlined in André Jolivet’s two piano sonatas, respectively composed in 1945 and 1957, each comprising three movements. Their
With the exception of Chen Yi’s Duo Ye, a work that intelligently internalizes traditional Chinese motives within a decidedly modernist context, all the pieces on
Imagine the pliable lyricism and harmonic ingenuity of Chick Corea in his prime acoustic piano years mixed with the uplifting spirit of Dave Brubeck’s famous
From the early 1990s to the present, André Previn’s compositional output has become more prolific and creatively fluid than in the past. This is not
