Editorial Product Review: :Backhaus was among the giants of 20th-century keyboard artists, renowned for his solid--some would say stolid--Beethoven and Brahms interpretations. The younger Backhaus was a more overtly virtuosic pianist with a wide repertory. This invaluable Pearl set covers his British recordings, starting in 1908 when he was only 24, and it includes composers and works he abandoned in later years when he pared his programs down to essential masterworks. So we get his only recordings of Rachmaninoff, whom he admired as the greatest among living piano composers, along with Bach, Scarlatti, and others. ...
Editorial Product Review: :Backhaus was among the giants of 20th-century keyboard artists, renowned for his solid--some would say stolid--Beethoven and Brahms interpretations. The younger Backhaus was a more overtly virtuosic pianist with a wide repertory. This invaluable Pearl set covers his British recordings, starting in 1908 when he was only 24, and it includes composers and works he abandoned in later years when he pared his programs down to essential masterworks. So we get his only recordings of Rachmaninoff, whom he admired as the greatest among living piano composers, along with Bach, Scarlatti, and others. ...
Editorial Product Review: :Backhaus was among the giants of 20th-century keyboard artists, renowned for his solid--some would say stolid--Beethoven and Brahms interpretations. The younger Backhaus was a more overtly virtuosic pianist with a wide repertory. This invaluable Pearl set covers his British recordings, starting in 1908 when he was only 24, and it includes composers and works he abandoned in later years when he pared his programs down to essential masterworks. So we get his only recordings of Rachmaninoff, whom he admired as the greatest among living piano composers, along with Bach, Scarlatti, and others. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Wilhelm Backhaus holds a place among pianists roughly comparable to that of Everest among mountains. Backhaus had it all - majesty and subtlety, intellectual probity and superhuman technique, presence and grace. His career spanned 70 years and his influence may be found in the playing of some of today's finest pianists — including Maurizio Pollini, who has always credited Backhaus as one of his greatest influences. The present collection features the early Backhaus - ranging from the startlingly clear and vital 1908 recordings of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Weber and Chopin to a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Wilhelm Backhaus holds a place among pianists roughly comparable to that of Everest among mountains. Backhaus had it all - majesty and subtlety, intellectual probity and superhuman technique, presence and grace. His career spanned 70 years and his influence may be found in the playing of some of today's finest pianists — including Maurizio Pollini, who has always credited Backhaus as one of his greatest influences. The present collection features the early Backhaus - ranging from the startlingly clear and vital 1908 recordings of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Weber and Chopin to a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Wilhelm Backhaus holds a place among pianists roughly comparable to that of Everest among mountains. Backhaus had it all - majesty and subtlety, intellectual probity and superhuman technique, presence and grace. His career spanned 70 years and his influence may be found in the playing of some of today's finest pianists — including Maurizio Pollini, who has always credited Backhaus as one of his greatest influences. The present collection features the early Backhaus - ranging from the startlingly clear and vital 1908 recordings of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Weber and Chopin to a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Wilhelm Backhaus holds a place among pianists roughly comparable to that of Everest among mountains. Backhaus had it all - majesty and subtlety, intellectual probity and superhuman technique, presence and grace. His career spanned 70 years and his influence may be found in the playing of some of today's finest pianists — including Maurizio Pollini, who has always credited Backhaus as one of his greatest influences. The present collection features the early Backhaus - ranging from the startlingly clear and vital 1908 recordings of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Weber and Chopin to a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Wilhelm Backhaus holds a place among pianists roughly comparable to that of Everest among mountains. Backhaus had it all - majesty and subtlety, intellectual probity and superhuman technique, presence and grace. His career spanned 70 years and his influence may be found in the playing of some of today's finest pianists — including Maurizio Pollini, who has always credited Backhaus as one of his greatest influences. The present collection features the early Backhaus - ranging from the startlingly clear and vital 1908 recordings of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Weber and Chopin to a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Wilhelm Backhaus holds a place among pianists roughly comparable to that of Everest among mountains. Backhaus had it all - majesty and subtlety, intellectual probity and superhuman technique, presence and grace. His career spanned 70 years and his influence may be found in the playing of some of today's finest pianists — including Maurizio Pollini, who has always credited Backhaus as one of his greatest influences. The present collection features the early Backhaus - ranging from the startlingly clear and vital 1908 recordings of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Weber and Chopin to a ...
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.