Largely overshadowed by the immense popularity of the First Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto is no less deserving of attention and enjoyment. Although a completely different beast than the First Concerto, Op. 44 is still filled with the trademark compositional characteristics of most of Tchaikovsky's works, including long, ...
One of the things that makes Shostakovich a great composer is that he is almost always instantly identifiable. Even in the works only the specialists have ever heard of, Shostakovich sounds like Shostakovich. On this disc of piano music, only the Second Piano Sonata is even slightly well known beyond the deepest fans of his music -- and most of ...
The Naxos box Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt consists of Volumes 15, 18, 12, 19, and 21 of the label's regular Liszt Complete Piano Music edition boxed up in that order. All of the symphonies are played by the excellent Russian pianist Konstantin Scherbakov, whose no nonsense interpretations of these ultra ...
The music of Leopold Godowsky has the reputation of being ostentatious and virtuosic to the point of being nearly unplayable. In some instances, such as with his reworkings of Chopin etudes, that reputation is grounded in fact. Yet, in volume five of his survey of Godowsky's solo piano works, Konstantin Scherbakov demonstrates that there are other ...
Franz Liszt's transcriptions for piano of Beethoven's symphonies, depending how one looks at them, are either a major event in the history of orchestral music transcribed for the piano or a colossal waste of energy. In their time, they were highly useful for music lovers who had no access to a symphony orchestra and proved lucrative for Liszt, who ...
Let's say you don't know a thing about Dmitry Shostakovich, but you've heard people say he was the greatest composer of the 20th century and you're curious to find out what all the fuss is about. Where should you start? Should you start with the Fifth Symphony or the Tenth Symphony, with the Eighth Quartet or the Fifteenth Quartet, with Laurel ...
One of the most frequently performed and recorded works of all time, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is, unsurprisingly, the main attraction of this disc. That it receives a superb performance is a plus, and listeners will not be disappointed by the recorded sound, which is wonderful. Yet connoisseurs of less familiar fare may be drawn instead ...
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