Nakamatsu; Jon

Foss: Powerful Piano Concertos from Nakamatsu

Victor Carr Jr

Lukas Foss composed his first piano concerto originally for clarinet while studying with Hindemith at Tanglewood and at Yale. The work was rewritten for piano

Jon Nakamatsu’s So-So Schumann

Jed Distler

In the 17 years since his 1997 Van Cliburn International Competition victory, Jon Nakamatsu’s Harmonia Mundi releases have ranged from brilliant (his Gershwin and Foss

Gershwin: Concerto; Rhapsody/Nakamatsu SACD

David Hurwitz

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu and “pops” conductor Jeff Tyzik team up for what unquestionably is the best Gershwin disc to come along in years. In Tyzik’s

Liszt: Solo piano works/Nakmatsu

Jed Distler

Nearly a decade after his Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medal victory, Jon Nakamatsu still strikes me as a solid, dependable, thoroughly professional, yet

Brahms: Op. 5 etc/Nakamatsu

Jed Distler

Given his status as a former Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medal Winner, we should expect more than just technical solidity and dependable professionalism

Wölfl: Piano Sonatas

Jed Distler

Joseph Wölfl (1773-1812) was a younger contemporary of Beethoven whose considerable keyboard virtuosity and prolific creative output is all but unknown today. The C minor

Rach P3

Victor Carr Jr

Now that Rachmaninov’s Third piano concerto has become an unshakeable competition staple, we can expect (and have been getting) performances like this one whose virtues