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This anthology was recorded in Villa Senar, Rachmaninov’s family home near Lucerne, on the composer’s own Steinway. The program celebrates the legendary composer/pianist in his
There’s nothing like a great accordion recording–really. There’s something inherently romantic and charmingly evocative about the Italian (or French) style of music and performance on
Don’t expect Alexis Weissenberg to imbue Rachmaninov’s two piano sonatas with color and sensuality. Instead, revel in swirling textures that boast extraordinary point, precision, and
Talk about a letdown! Gustavo Dudamel is supposed to be the hottest new thing on the classical music entertainment circuit–a sizzling, hot-blooded, youthful, Latino superstar
I guess “pretty” wins. Concurrent with her debut as Zerlina in the Met’s new, tedious Don Giovanni, German soprano Mojca Erdmann’s first solo CD has
In a recent lecture, Liszt biographer Alan Walker explained how Liszt essentially invented the piano recital, with the idea that a program should have a
This celebrated recording of Saint-Saëns’ Third stands as one of the very few performances to challenge the acclaimed Munch/Boston version on RCA. It features playing
It’s appropriate that since his appointment as music director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel would present works by Scandinavian composers. Reportedly he was
Several critics following the 2010 International Chopin Competition wrote that the second-place winner, Ingolf Wunder, was the one who deserved first prize rather than the
Say what you will about the 75-year-old Wilhelm Kempff’s “old school” Goldberg Variations, with its unembellished Aria, seeming surface plainness, and avoidance of virtuosic sheen.
