
The Bottom Line: This is atrocious.
Having completed a cycle of Mozart’s solo keyboard works for Harmonia Mundi, Kristian Bezuidenhout now turns his attention to Haydn. He plays on a Paul
It’s interesting how certain artists who’ve recorded great interpretations of Schubert’s Winterreise can’t leave well enough alone. Matthias Goerne’s Hyperion recording with pianist Graham Johnson,
You really want to love these performances. Kristian Bezuidenhout plays on a deliciously crisp reproduction of a period (1820s) piano, and his passagework really glitters.
It’s easy to understand why critics have favorably responded to Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart playing: He’s a flawless technician and a musician of great finesse, who
How much you enjoy this recording may come down to your taste for the fortepiano. This particular instrument (a copy of a 1795 Anton Walter)
The title Sturm und Drang characterizes the nature of the Mozart works contained on this disc, but not the playing. Kristian Bezuidenhout phrases the operatically-tinged