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This first volume in a projected series of the complete Haydn piano trios promises many future delights. The performances are, by and large, excellent. The
Who else but Marc-André Hamelin can open an all-Chopin recital with the gentle Berceuse and get away with it? The pianist quickly puts listeners in
York Bowen was a splendid composer for the piano (and an excellent concert artist as well). His Third Piano Concerto is a single-movement piece about
Henryk Melcer (1869-1928) loomed large in Warsaw’s musical life in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. A pupil of the legendary Theodor Leschetitsky (who taught Schnabel,
Hyperion’s Bantock recordings have been justly celebrated as burnishing (at least somewhat) the image of a very important turn-of-the-century English composer. There is some wonderful
Although the CD catalog doesn’t reflect Cristóbal de Morales’ deserving position among the greatest Renaissance composers–only a handful of discs are devoted to his music–this
This new release from Hyperion shows why the label is so revered by collectors: assuming the usual high quality of performers and engineering, you have
Stephen Hough has devised a provocative and effective program that juxtaposes Mozart piano pieces with works by later composers that use Mozart as a jumping-off
Originally issued as individual volumes by Arabesque, Garrick Ohlsson’s integral 1990s Chopin survey returns on Hyperion as a space-saving 16-disc boxed set. Comparisons between these
Marc-André Hamelin’s freakish proficiency at the piano both suits and serves Alkan’s music to extraordinary ends. He accomplishes technical miracles in the Symphony for Solo
