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Recorded during the 2021 Hamburg Festival, Avanti Classic’s third “Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich” box set features the legendary pianist and various emerging and established colleagues
The Bottom Line: Beethoven cycle aside, this is a mostly splendid set that reveals MTT at his best, especially in Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Mahler, Ives, Stravinsky,
It’s admirable when pianists try to honor Beethoven’s seemingly impossible fast metronome marking for the Hammerklavier Sonata’s first movement Allegro. Regarding Artur Schnabel’s sincere yet
In 2008 EMI (now Warner Classics) marked the 150th anniversary
Over the past two decades the Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen has become a highly sought-after chamber music collaborator in concert and on disc. He also
KOLA (Keep On Listening Awards) 2024 A Czech Celebration Novák: Concentus Biilugus (for Piano Four-Hands and String Orchestra); Choreae Vernales (for Flute, String Orchestra, Harp
ALDA (Avoid Like Death Awards) 2024 The White Scarf of Irredeemable Chutzpah Recipients: Stravinsky: Petrushka Debussy: Jeux; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Orchestre
Hyperion already has excellent recordings of both of these concertos, from Demidenko (Medtner) and Hough (Rachmaninov), but as they saying goes, “greatness is its own
As we proceed through the 12 Days of Christmas (ending on the night of January 5), there’s still time to “officially” enjoy some new seasonal
Themed Christmas programs such as this are common–and often unimpressive, unexceptional. Of course they’re common because it’s very easy to program a concert consisting of
