Useful as a soporific for nap time, The Ultimate Most Relaxing Classics for Kids in the Universe presents 29 excerpts and short pieces that, for the most part, have been selected to calm down even the most rambunctious youngster. Of course, if this double-disc collection is used merely to induce sleep, it's only important to know that most of the ...
One of Denon's Ultimate Most Relaxing [insert type of music here] in the Universe series that culls performances from the Denon catalog, this disc of piano music encompasses much more than most similar compilations, which generally only feature solo piano music. This one uses movements from piano concertos, piano trios, and even one from Brahms' ...
Konstantin Lifschitz -- the teenage Russian pianist who surprised the classical world in the early '90s with an amazingly virtuosic and astoundingly mature recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations -- has never quite lived up to the promise of his early recordings. It's not that his later recordings weren't as good -- Lifschitz's recordings of ...
The Husum Piano Festival is held annually, third week of August, at Husum Castle in what native Theodor Storm called the "grey town on the sea" in North Frisia in Germany. Since 1989, Danish label Danacord has dutifully recorded every festival, and in 2005, Danacord issued a boxed set containing the 16 festivals recorded from 1989 to 2004. ...
This 2009 Signum Classics disc Rachmaninov for Violin and Piano is something of a mixed bag. On the positive side is the skillful and soulful violin playing of Hideko Udagawa, whose lean, incisive tone and tight, focused vibrato cut through the thickest textures of the piano accompaniment. Another asset is the masterful piano playing of Konstantin ...
Ukrainian-born pianist Konstantin Lifschitz has been a militant in the struggle to claim Bach's music for pianists, insisting that his role is that of an "interpreter" despite having applied such wholesale Romantic concepts in the past as designating the two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier as "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," ...
It is curious that violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, on a multi-volume project to record the Mozart sonatas for piano and violin, would choose to switch pianists mid-stream. Vol. 1 featured pianist Antonio Pappano, whose playing was proficient but overly relegated to the background. On Vol. 2, Sitkovetsky teams up with pianist Konstantin Lifschitz. ...
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