
Liszt’s later piano music is often stark, lean, angular, and lacking in artifice, seemingly pointing the way toward Busoni and Bartók. For this reason, the
Cédric Tiberghien’s earlier Chopin recordings sometimes teetered over that fragile line between personalized poetry and contrived mannerism. In the Op. 28 Preludes, however, the pianist
The back of the CD sleeve describes Martinu’s Toccata e
Cédric Tiberghien’s fine Bartók piano music cycle for Hyperion faces
Cédric Tiberghien’s Brahms recital straddles, and sometimes crosses over, a thin line between interpretive freedom and mannerism. Some of his tempo fluctuations convince in Op.
Few moments in the concerto literature test the pianist more than does the first-movement entrance in this piece (the opening of Beethoven’s Fourth offers perhaps
For his program celebrating the “twin peaks of the Romantic Ballade”, Cédric Tiberghien brackets Brahms’ Op. 10 set with Chopin’s First and Second on one
In light of pianist Cédric Tiberghien’s finer Bach and Debussy performances on earlier Harmonia Mundi releases, this disc is somewhat of a letdown. Its overly
The gaunt, serious-looking booklet photo of pianist Cédric Tiberghien provides an apt visual counterpart to his Beethoven playing. Tiberghien is a fastidious virtuoso who takes