
These performances are as lively and attractive as any on disc. The Second Piano Concerto, played in its original version, is bigger than the first,
The two piano concertos of Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça date
Eldar Nebolsin’s Schubert playing is straightforward, intelligently musical, and technically superb. His mastery is such that he can afford to dispatch the Wanderer Fantasy’s notorious
While not the most impassioned and poetic reading of Chopin’s F minor concerto to be had, there’s much to be said for Eldar Nebolsin’s forthright
It’s sad that these pieces aren’t performed more often; even the delicious Variations seems to have fallen by the wayside. Ernö von Dohnányi was a
My only reservation about the sharply etched, musicianly performances contained on this disc concerns a slightly diffuse orchestra perspective that doesn’t quite mesh with the
Eldar Nebolsin first came to my attention in 1994, when the pianist (19 at the time) recorded an exciting and energetic Chopin B minor sonata