Editorial Product Review: : Since Martha Argerich has abandoned solo recitals and studio recordings, her new CDs feature concert collaborations with like-minded friends and protégés. Whatever the negatives of such live recordings may be, the upside trumps them handily since, if we're lucky, some of the sparks generated by musicians in a concert venue will be captured. With this set drawn from the 2005 Lugano Festival we're decidedly lucky, for musical electricity courses through all three discs. There are nine works by eight composers ranging from Mendelssohn to Guastavino, all played with spontaneity and full-blooded ...
Editorial Product Review: :Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a remarkable pianist, and this concert, taped live at Carnegie Hall in December 2001 (and only barely touched up), is living proof. The Berg actually sounds perfectly Classical, the Beethoven is clearly, beautifully played (with only the final movement slightly lacking in thrills), and the Liszt is less aggressively showy than it can be. The two Debussy 'watery' works are gorgeous--misty yet easy to make out--and the Ligeti come across as approachable, sensible, and fascinating, instead of mere clusters of sound, which can often be the case. And nobody ...
Editorial Product Review: :Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a remarkable pianist, and this concert, taped live at Carnegie Hall in December 2001 (and only barely touched up), is living proof. The Berg actually sounds perfectly Classical, the Beethoven is clearly, beautifully played (with only the final movement slightly lacking in thrills), and the Liszt is less aggressively showy than it can be. The two Debussy 'watery' works are gorgeous--misty yet easy to make out--and the Ligeti come across as approachable, sensible, and fascinating, instead of mere clusters of sound, which can often be the case. And nobody ...
Editorial Product Review: :Pierre-Laurent Aimard is a remarkable pianist, and this concert, taped live at Carnegie Hall in December 2001 (and only barely touched up), is living proof. The Berg actually sounds perfectly Classical, the Beethoven is clearly, beautifully played (with only the final movement slightly lacking in thrills), and the Liszt is less aggressively showy than it can be. The two Debussy 'watery' works are gorgeous--misty yet easy to make out--and the Ligeti come across as approachable, sensible, and fascinating, instead of mere clusters of sound, which can often be the case. And nobody ...
Editorial Product Review: :Brahms's shorter choral music with orchestra remains more or less on the periphery of the basic repertoire for a few reasons. The music is difficult to program in isolation, and it's also a lot of work for relatively small return. Not that it's bad or dull--most of it is lovely, but never quite offers enough bang for your buck. This collection logically and satisfyingly offers first-rate performances of all of these warmly Romantic pieces, with Marilyn Horne, an especially distinctive soloist, in the Alto Rhapsody. A lovely disc, then, to explore at ...
Editorial Product Review: :Brahms's shorter choral music with orchestra remains more or less on the periphery of the basic repertoire for a few reasons. The music is difficult to program in isolation, and it's also a lot of work for relatively small return. Not that it's bad or dull--most of it is lovely, but never quite offers enough bang for your buck. This collection logically and satisfyingly offers first-rate performances of all of these warmly Romantic pieces, with Marilyn Horne, an especially distinctive soloist, in the Alto Rhapsody. A lovely disc, then, to explore at ...
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