
In the late 1940s Shura Cherkassky made his first major solo piano recordings in the form of three 78 rpm albums for the newly formed
As an interpreter Shura Cherkassky could be capricious and even willful to a maddening degree. You never knew what he would do from piece to
The late Shura Cherkassky was one of the few champions of Tchaikovsky’s Second piano concerto and his performance here reveals his devotion to the piece.
When the elflike yet compact figure of Shura Cherkassky bounded across the stage and took his seat at the piano, no one knew what to