The youthful Jonathan Biss is one of the few new American pianists to have made a splash on both sides of the Atlantic, and he takes a definite stride forward with this recording of much-played Beethoven sonatas. In taking on Beethoven he faced the challenge of standing out from the crowd, a challenge to which many pianists respond by playing with ...
The next to best thing about Jonathan Biss' recording of the piano music of Beethoven and Schumann is that it exists. These days, having a flourishing international concert career with appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony is hard enough, but having a recording issued by one of the major ...
Maybe not the greatest performance of Schumann's Fantasie in C major ever recorded -- there is the star-spanning Richter -- and maybe not the greatest performance of Schumann's Kreisleriana ever recorded -- there is the epoch-making Horowitz -- these performances recorded by young American virtuoso Jonathan Biss are still truly, deeply, profoundly ...
A prominent figure in American modernist circles through most of the twentieth century, Leon Kirchner is a highly regarded composer, though his music is perhaps more often discussed than performed, due to its dense chromaticism, angular lines, and generally dark and introspective expressions. This 2007 release from Albany brings together Kirchner ...
While one cannot but praise pianist Jonathan Biss' superb performances of Mozart's Piano Concertos No. 21 and No. 22 for their graceful tone and elegant articulation, arguably the best music-making here is done by the accompanying orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Again and again, the poise of the balances, the effortlessness of the ...
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