
Bach’s Goldberg Variations may seem like a proverbial drop in the bucket for a pianist known for tackling Sorabji’s Opus Clavicembalisticum, the complete Godowsky/Chopin Etudes,
A release like this has critics at a terrible disadvantage. Even if it would have been possible to obtain a score and study a work
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction, particularly so in the case of Leopold Godowsky’s piano versions of Brahms’ Four Symphonies for the
Originally issued in 1991 on the Danacord label, BIS reissues Geoffrey Douglas Madge’s Medtner Concerto cycle as a two-for-the-price-of-one CD set. Essentially, the Medtner Concerto
Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Opus Clavicembalisicum is arguably the longest non-repetitive piano composition ever published. Modeled on Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica, OC’s structure encompasses, among other things, two
Nikos Skalkottas is one of the very few composers who managed to create successful tonal and atonal works at the same time. This disc contains