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Orfeo has been marking its 40th anniversary with boxed sets […]
Gerhard Oppitz, Marc Andreae, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra offer the three principal piano and orchestra works by Robert Schumann as grouped in a concurrent
The distant, murky, and sometimes metallic sonic patina typical of Hänssler’s recordings with Gerhard Oppitz never has been to my taste. Neither is much of
Gerhard Oppitz’s 22-minute-plus timing for the Schubert B-flat D. 960 sonata’s first movement accounts less for slow tempos than for its fairly consistent tempo fluctuations,
For the most part, Volume 5 of Gerhard Oppitz’s uneven Beethoven cycle finds the pianist on top form in the three Op. 31 sonatas: inspired,
Like his one-time teacher Wilhelm Kempff, Gerhard Oppitz plays Beethoven’s Op. 22 sonata wonderfully well. Oppitz’s brisk pacing and characterful accents certainly define the first
RCA resurrects Gerhard Oppitz’s late-1980s solo Brahms cycle as a budget boxed set, an enticing marketing ploy that nevertheless will not bump up these generally
The workmanlike quality I’ve inferred from many of Gerhard Oppitz’s recordings hardly prepared me for the sheer inspiration and commitment the pianist displays throughout his
Two discs’ worth of transfigured and hyphenated Bach make for an interesting if somewhat heavy program, akin to eating a nine-course, all-meat dinner on a
This new live Also Sprach Zarathustra is not a recording for showing off your hi-fi equipment. The reverberant hall acoustic imparts a halo that slightly
