[A re-post in memory of Russell Sherman (3/24/1930–9/30/2023), concert pianist and long-time teacher at New England Conservatory, who died at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts
Given Russell Sherman’s reputation as a provocative musical thinker and inspiring teacher, you would expect his Chopin Mazurkas to offer the insights of a seasoned
This is quite an enjoyable Bartók album, featuring an intriguing sample of his early and late-period works. The masterpiece of course is Music for Strings,
Nowhere does Vanguard Classics indicate that the Liszt performances gathered for this reissue respectively date from the early 1970s (Russell Sherman’s Transcendental Etudes, which first
The ups and downs of Russell Sherman’s perplexing Beethoven Sonata cycle reach roller-coaster dimensions in this latest installment. There’s no question that the pianist is