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Hyperion already has cornered the market with its roster of top pianists, and with this release the label looks about ready to do so with
Mozart may not have lavished his piano trios with the same inventiveness, formal daring, and emotional tension that marks his other late-period works. Still, when
Dukas’ Piano Sonata is the French “Hammerklavier”, a massive work nearly 45 minutes long written in an uncompromising style that never courts popularity. That said,
Until recently, not even the most esoteric piano buffs had heard of the American-born, Paris-based pianist Walter Rummel (1887-1953). Highly regarded (and sometimes derided) for
Most of my comments from my review of this disc’s companion (Songs my father taught me–type Q5118 in Search Reviews) still apply, although on this
Marc-André Hamelin’s forays into the standard repertoire have met with mixed success, partly because the competition is so strong, and partly because there seems to
This is a very beautiful disc of elegant, finely made chamber music. Good cello sonatas are not exactly thick on the field, offering serious problems
It’s typical of what happens in the classical recording industry that having just raved about Harmonia Mundi’s set of Saint-Saëns trios featuring Trio Wanderer, out
This second disc of concertos by Henri Herz turns out to be even more delightful and attractive than the first. Two of these concertos, Nos.
Whatever happened to the happy evening with family and friends gathering around the piano for yet one more run-through of everyone’s favorite songs–songs whose beloved
