
Philips’ new “Artist’s Choice” release devoted to Alfred Brendel recordings selected by the pianist taps into previously unpublished live and broadcast material. According to Brendel’s
Mozart is on inspired form in these wonderful works, and so is Alfred Brendel. In the K. 533/494 Sonata, the pianist reaches levels of nuance,
Time and again over the course of these warm-sounding, intimately engineered recordings of Beethoven’s piano and cello works Alfred Brendel’s seasoned keyboard artistry diverts attention
Matthias Goerne’s live Winterreise is an improvement over his studio recording of Die schöne Müllerin, though it’s still marred by overinterpretation that, while apparently deeply
Alfred Brendel’s recording sessions for the Vanguard label in the 1960s produced one concerto coupling, and, boy, is it a beauty! We have two of
Alfred Brendel has been making records since the early 1950s, when as a twenty-something he recorded the Prokofiev Fifth Piano Concerto for Vox, then moving
Revisiting the first of Alfred Brendel’s several recorded versions of the Schubert C minor sonata leads me to conclude that it’s his finest. Tensile drive
This 7-CD budget-priced box features the Alban Berg Quartet in fine performances of chamber music masterpieces by Mozart, thus automatically making it a set to
Disc 1 of Vanguard’s Mozart piano music collection is given over to a 1965 recital by Alfred Brendel. The luminous introspection and grace that distinguish
The scintillation and sparkle that distinguish Jeanne-Marie Darré’s superb shellac-era Saint-Saëns concertos and Liszt recordings are curiously missing from an all-Liszt program she recorded for
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