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Franz Liszt viewed his solo piano transcriptions of the Beethoven Symphonies as a means to disseminate these works and make them accessible to the general

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Scriabin seems to be an “in” composer all of a sudden, what with numerous new recordings of his youthful Piano Concerto and late tone poems/symphonies.

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Jed Distler

Although Beethoven marks it “vivace”, Konstantin Scherbakov slows Diabelli’s waltz down to a clunky clog-dance. He takes the ensuing 33 variations more or less within

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