The third release in Jean-Claude Pennetier’s complete Fauré piano music cycle mixes and matches genres in performances that for the most part are intimate and understated. This certainly befit...
Although Masaaki Suzuki’s solo harpsichord Bach recordings span several decades, his technical and musical consistency seems to defy time, as borne out in The Art of Fugue. He continues to use ...
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Back in the 1990s it was fashionable for classical musicians to call their concerts or CD releases “The X Project” or “The Y Project”. I thought this fad had long passed into history, yet...
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Following his magnificent 2001 recording of J.S. Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias for BIS, the Japanese harpsichordist/organist/conductor Masaaki Suzuki here offers more revelatory performances ...
This Fauré disc is among the highlights of Testament’s fascinating To access this content you must login to your Insider account , or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annuall...
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Why do certain pianists play so fast? Because they can. That crossed my mind while hearing Daniil Trifonov and his erstwhile teacher Sergei Babayan tear through the Rachmaninov Suite No. 2’s Wa...
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Every so often a golden-voiced (or is it bronze?, I’m To access this content you must login to your Insider account , or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
This reissue of performances from a 1986 release on RPO is arguably the finest among a large group of full-orchestra renditions of Fauré’s Requiem. The full-bodied orchestration is effectively...
Written in open scoring for any number of participants on any instruments, Terry Riley’s In C consists of 53 melodic patterns that can be repeated as many times as desired in any octave transpo...
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