
Although André Watts recorded all of these selections commercially for EMI in the 1980s, the 1986 Schwetzingen Festival SWR broadcast recordings issued here for the
The first four discs of EMI’s 10-CD Liszt anniversary collection feature Aldo Ciccolini in the complete Années de pèlerinage (his superb stereo remakes), Harmonies poétiques
Of the two Op. 27 sonatas Beethoven subtitled “quasi una fantasia”, André Watts’ solid and poised rendition of the lesser-known E-flat work stands out for
The two Liszt recitals André Watts recorded for EMI in the 1980s have drifted in and out of EMI’s midline catalog and now reappear as
The Gilels/Ormandy Chopin E minor concerto mainly impresses for its surface sheen. As a Chopinist, Gilels was not the colorist and tone poet Arthur Rubinstein