This remastered disc of Ronald Smith recordings from 1977 and 1985 is an essential buy for any fan of Alkan. Smith is well-known as an Alkan scholar, and it shows in his performances. The colors and moods he brings out and his technical confidence in works that can equal the difficulty of Liszt is a joy to listen to. The symphony from the Etudes, ...
Anyone familiar with the unfailing digits and seemingly inexhaustible energy of Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin would find the very prospect of his recording Charles-Valentin Alkan's giga-difficult Concerto for solo piano as a natural match of pianist and piece. This 50-minute mega-monstrosity -- the first movement alone lasts nearly a half an ...
Raymond Lewenthal: Piano Music of Alkan & Liszt consists of recordings by legendary pianist Raymond Lewenthal made for RCA-Victor in 1965 and 1966. These recordings were the touchstone of the Romantic Revival in the 1960s that Lewenthal spearheaded, but whose full effect would not be apparent until a couple of decades hence. Despite many requests ...
The title of Élan's The Legendary Pianist Raymond Lewenthal plays Alkan & Liszt should not be taken as hyperbole; Lewenthal certainly was "legendary," a larger than life figure just as mysterious and off-center as the composers he championed. In the 1960s, Lewenthal spurred on what he called the "Romantic Revival," resurrecting from the dead ...
"Transfigured Mozart?" Yes, indeed, transfigured Mozart. Eschewing either original works or the best-known arrangements, South African pianist Petronel Malan has chosen transcriptions which radically transform, nay, transfigure Mozart's music. From Johann Nepomuk Hummel's brilliantly post-Classical "Fantasina on a theme of Figaro" through ...
A wonderful idea brilliantly executed, Bart van Oort's four-disc set entitled The Art of the Nocturne is not only an in-depth examination of one of the most romantic of romantic musical forms, but also a really sexy set of seduction discs that cannot fail to warm even the coldest heart. The first disc in Oort's survey includes all the elegantly ...
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