Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
It’s one thing to take liberties and interpretive risks; it’s quite another to be merely perverse. Apparently the formerly “normal” pianist Alexander Paley has drifted
The best one can say about this extremely hit-and-miss Balakirev piano music cycle (recorded in 1992 for the Essay label) is that it is a
Franck à la Russe! Alexander Paley transforms the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue into a full-blown virtuoso thriller, replete with agitated tempo fluctuations and the organ-like
