
For the most part Alain Lefèvre wields a heavy, prosaic […]
Alain Lefèvre is a stylish pianist, and in these three live performances he offers plenty to tickle the ear. André Mathieu’s Rhapsodie Romantique is a
Almost all of the great, near-great, and not-so-great Romantic pianists composed fluffy salon pieces in their spare time. For better or worse, Alain Lefèvre has
If you have the opportunity to sample this disc before buying it, play track number 5. You’ll first hear a wistful waltz theme, harmonized in
What a fascinating novelty André Mathieu’s Concerto de Québec is! A child prodigy of Mozartian facility, Mathieu wrote the work in the early 1940s when
Unlike most performances of Bach’s A minor Organ Prelude that basically adhere to a steady tempo, Alain Lefèvre’s slows down and speeds up in the
Alain Lefèvre’s clean fingerwork and crystalline sonority give the labyrinthine, orchestrally inspired textures of Rachmaninov’s Moments Musicaux a quality we might liken to a newly