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The opening of the Concerto in F had me more than a little concerned: those extra rim-shots on the snare drum, the spotlit clarinet trills—and
These are fabulous performances, the coupling is more than generous (a full 80 minutes of music), and the concertos are so different from Toradze/Gergiev that
Freddy Kempf begins Beethoven’s “Pathetique” sonata in a way that’s destined to prick up the ears of critics and newsgroup participants. After striking the opening
Freddy Kempf’s Chopin Etudes largely eschew the willful mannerisms that pockmarked his accounts of the same composer’s Ballades. Yet some of his rubatos still seem
Not since Murray Perahia’s debut Schumann disc has a young player penetrated this mercurial composer’s elusive sound world with the dramatic insight, stylistic affinity, harmonic
Be it the first 1913 edition or the pruned-down 1931 rewrite, Rachmaninov’s Second Sonata, for all its stimulating pianism, is a tough nut to crack
Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Etudes withstand Freddy Kempf’s impetuous artistry and staggering technical proficiency to more convincing effect than his wayward and willful Chopin on a
Freddy Kempf has strong ideas about how Chopin’s Ballades should go, yet problems occur when these ideas don’t correspond to what Chopin wanted. This is
