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Olga Kern’s high level of technical sheen in the Second and Third Chopin sonatas cannot be disputed, despite the ups and downs of her musicality.
Here are more live performances from the 2009 International Van Cliburn Competition featuring the young Gold Medalist Nobuyuki Tsujii. The Chopin E minor concerto focuses
If Andreas Staier’s harpsichord–reconstructed after an “authentic” 1734 Hass model–hardly equals the unabashed multi-stop splendor of Wanda Landowska’s “inauthentic” custom-built Pleyel, its ample range of
You want to love this disc. Harmonia Mundi doesn’t issue many recordings of contemporary music, but this effort turns out to be disappointing. Thierry Pécou,
Once in while a recording comes along in which the performers, producers, and recording team get everything right. This is one of them. First issued
The live performances on this disc stem from the 2009 International Van Cliburn Competition and feature the Silver Medal award winner, 23-year-old Yeol Eum Son.
Seldom has so much obvious talent and skill resulted in such unstylish, even perverse results. The Freiburger Barockorchester continues to impress as the ugliest ensemble,
This disc has a lot going for it. Jon Manasse is a superb clarinetist, with a perfectly even tone in all registers, a silky legato,
The premise of this recital is not only to recreate as closely as possible Chopin’s concert of February 21, 1842, on an instrument he might
A voice teacher and professional lieder singer I know and respect entered the room during Bernarda Fink’s performance of Mondnacht on this new recording of
