
As of this writing (November 2019) Bella Davidovich is alive […]
Blind since birth, the 30-year-old Russian pianist Oleg Akkuratov has garnered a multi-faceted reputation for keyboard prowess in both jazz and classical circles. Considering that
Bach’s Partita No. 4 in D major and Partita No. 6 in E minor each usually clock in at close to half an hour, if
Arranging Liszt’s iconic and influential Piano Sonata in B minor for two pianos seems like a ridiculous idea, except for the fact that Liszt himself
This live Ravel program from the glory days of the
Yikes! Just as the Russian winter defeated Napoleon, so the
This blood-and-thunder performance recorded in Moscow in 1974 will be of interest mainly to admirers of the three main singers, here heard at their absolute
This complete Prokofiev symphony cycle, from the mid 1960s, represents
The late Lazar Berman (1930-2005) recorded two complete cycles of
Grigory Sokolov’s live 1982 Bach Goldberg Variations once was a