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Most pianists who record both Chopin concertos tend to ignore the composer’s other concerted works for piano and orchestra. As a result, the catalog contains
As with most discs that couple the piano and orchestral versions of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, the piano version comes first, which can be
When it comes to fingers, Oleg Marshev can do whatever he wishes at the piano. Give him Liszt’s scintillating rotary patterns in the tenth Transcendental
Anyone who can make the massive chordal writing characterizing much of the 19-year-old Brahms’ First Piano Sonata sound both grand and effortless deserves a gold
Oleg Marshev and the Liszt Sonata generally mesh well. The pianist meets the composer’s virtuosic challenges head on, fusing energy, bravura, and unassailable finger power.
Oleg Marshev hunts and pecks his way through the Schubert B-flat sonata’s first movement, with a mannered distension here, an arbitrary tenuto there, an outsized
Oleg Marshev’s light-n’-lively renditions of Shostakovich’s piano concertos are in keeping with their somewhat rebellious spirit. He and Hannu Lintu take the music’s inherent playfulness
The long timings listed on the back of this release’s jewel case correctly indicate the generally broad tempos and rhetorical headroom that characterize this Rachmaninov
