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For all the grotty playing and occasionally screechy sonics, there’s […]
The American-born/Paris-based pianist Julius Katchen, who died in 1969 at
Josef Suk, the Czech violinist whose noble, aristocratic style was
Contrary to Decca’s cover sticker, this release does not quite encompass all of Julius Katchen’s Beethoven recordings. The Op. 126 Bagatelles and Appassionata sonata are
Here’s a generously packed, excellently remastered eight-disc overview of Julius Katchen’s prolific (though tragically short-lived) recording career. Much of the material overlaps with Australian Decca’s
Although Julius Katchen’s 1958 Brahms Handel and Paganini Variations recordings were released in stereo, it appears that only the mono master tape could be located
Admirers of Byron Janis do not need to be told of his febrile virtuosity and inborn affinity for Russian music. But they do need to
Most collectors, I suspect, will want to know how Julius Katchen’s 1953 mono versions of the Prokofiev and Bartók Third Concertos compare to his better
Given the run-of-the-mill quality of many broadcast performances flooding the historic CD bins, this exciting Brahms D minor Concerto from 1951 unquestionably stands out from
Zubin Mehta’s and Arthur Rubinstein’s single recorded collaboration was made very late in the pianists life (the artist’s respective contracts made earlier joint projects impossible).
