
I won’t mince words. Of all the professional, modern recordings of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, this is one of the least distinguished.
João Carlos Martins recorded Bach’s complete keyboard music (at least most of it) during the 1980s and ’90s. Over the years those performances have appeared
João Carlos Martins’ 1964 traversal of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book Two proves as equally confrontational and iconoclastic as the 24-year-old pianist’s Book One. Yet, by
My reactions to João Carlos Martins’ Bach recordings from the 1980s and ’90s ranged from grudging admiration (his Partitas and French Overture) to outright annoyance