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In the early 1870s Johan Svendsen and his American wife Sally Levett got to be friends with Dick and Cosima Wagner. According to Simax’s booklet
Period-instrument buffs will find more than passing interest in Liv Glaser’s Clementi recital in that she employs a replica of a 1799 Longman and Clementi
What an interesting idea to bookend Mendelssohn’s delightful yet seldom heard E major Op. 6 sonata with short groups of Scarlatti sonatas. More importantly, it’s
This is one of those discs that features both excellent individual performances and a total package that adds up to more than the sum of
It’s impossible any more to speak of a single “right way” to play Beethoven. In fact, there are at least four distinct styles, all of
There’s a tendency on the part of some performers to play Beethoven’s First and Second Piano Concertos as if they were really by Mozart–all elegance,
Before you condemn the Glaser siblings as musicologically incorrect for pairing a modern cello with a Graff fortepiano in the Schubert Arpeggione sonata and with
On the plus side for this first volume of Simax’s Debussy piano music cycle, pianist Håkon Austbø’s full-bodied sonority and wide dynamic range do full
Pianist Sigurd Slåttebrekk’s previous Simax CD featuring music by Ravel impressed me no end upon its release, and it garnered high praise from several pianist/critic
This series goes from strength to strength. In a world overflowing with Beethoven symphonies, these performances have in abundance the all-important qualities of freshness and
