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Tabe; Kyoko

Grieg: Piano sonata etc/Tabe

Jed Distler

Debussy’s characterization of Grieg’s short piano pieces as “bon-bons filled with snow” is happily contradicted by Kyoko Tabe’s crisp, purposeful pianism. She projects the lyric

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Debussy Estampes Tabe Chandos

Jed Distler

Kyoko Tabe’s soft-grained pianism melts right into Claude Debussy’s nuance-within-nuance syntax and makes itself comfy. The six Children’s Corner movements typify Tabe’s approach, from her

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PIANO WORKS

ClassicsToday

Those expecting the grandeur of Sibelius’s great symphonies or his sweeping tone poems will be disappointed by this collection of modest, sometimes understated works for

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