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Pierre-Laurent Aimard devoting a whole disc to Schubert Dances? A far-fetched idea, you’d think. It’s almost as if the late Maurizio Pollini had decided to
Having heard Pierre-Laurent Aimard give several intense and impassioned live performances of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata over the past several seasons, his studio recording generally seems
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s long association with Olivier Messiaen’s music dates back to the early 1970s, when the teenaged pianist was a protégée of both the composer
As we look back and begin to assess with a
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Dvorák series with the Concertgebouw Orchestra remains some
You may not be losing any sleep over your lack
While Pierre-Laurent Aimard interprets certain areas of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire with incandescent mastery (Ives, Carter, Messiaen, Ligeti, and Boulez, for example) he’s unpredictable in
Thirteen discs of this stuff is torture–27 works that graphically
As with his previous solo Debussy CD (the Images and Etudes) Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s Préludes contain both incandescent and matter-of-fact performances. In Book 1 he maintains
Kent Nagano may know his Messiaen, but the Berlin Philharmonic
