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There’s nothing remotely “Impromptu” about Tzimon Barto’s Schubert Impromptus, where nearly every phrase is vulgarly over-articulated, over-stressed, dynamically exaggerated, and underlined in multi-colored ink, as
It would take hundreds of thousands of words to categorically
Given Tzimon Barto’s penchant for interpretive mayhem on disc, I approached his recording of Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata with trepidation. As it happens, Barto turns
Before discussing Tzimon Barto’s Goldberg Variations “after the adaption of
Tzimon Barto may not be the most odious Ravel pianist
Whether or not you want this souvenir disc depends on how you feel about the concept. On the plus side, the “bonus disc” is in
Next to his horrifically mannered Rameau and Ravel releases, Tzimon Barto’s Haydn comes off comparably normal, although bad taste still prevails in this excellently engineered
When playing Rameau, Tzimon Barto pares the keyboard writing’s decorative surface down to its melodic essence, downplays its dance roots, and basically uses the text
This somewhat uneven disc has one important thing going for it: the best performance is also the thing most worth having–specifically, Marius Constant’s marvelous orchestration
