Improvisation at the piano in the classical music medium is as old as the piano itself, although one wouldn't know it to the extent that it has found representation on recordings. The improvising of Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz was captured on wax cylinders in 1910, and Sergey Rachmaninov's intense improvisation on Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. ...
Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero scored an artistic success with her previous EMI disc Gabriela Montero: Piano Recital, consisting of two discs, of which the second consisted entirely of improvisations. With Bach and Beyond, Montero dives into her first all-improvisation disc, and while it is not a completely unqualified success artistically, ...
All too often, chamber music collaborations between established, accomplished soloists do not yield favorable results. Merely putting together virtuosic musicians does not mean they will play well together. Such is not the case with this recording of Martha Argerich's 2006 festival in Lugano. This album represents an amazing synthesis of well ...
Martha Argerich does not give solo piano recitals anymore. She does something better: she plays duo piano and chamber music with her friends and students. She's been doing it for a couple of decades, and willful as she is, she probably won't change. Besides, when it comes to duo piano and chamber music recitals, Argerich with her friends and ...
The nearly uninterrupted string of strong, successful albums produced by cellist Gautier Capuçon (and indeed his violinist brother, Renaud) demonstrates that the CD debut Face à Face was not just a fluke produced by child prodigies. Rather, Face à Face was a springboard for what has proven to be an enduring career and ever-improving musicianship. ...
Martha Argerich's annual appearances at the Lugano Festival are highly sought after by her fans. Featuring the Argentinean pianist plus any number of her friends and protégés in a huge range of repertoire, the performances are as enjoyable as they are unusual and as thrilling as they are insightful. EMI began releasing three-disc sets containing a ...
Since 1989, Danacord has compiled CDs from the annual Rarities of Piano Music Festival held at Schloss vor Husum series in Northern Germany. This series often introduces to the catalog pieces of piano music, both current and historic, for the first time, and serves an opportunity to hear first-class piano soloists that, for whatever reason, are ...
When EMI agreed to record Martha Argerich's appearances at the Lugano Chamber Music Festival, no doubt part of the contract included a clause stipulating it could release her two piano recordings separately. It only makes sense. While her dedicated fans might be avidly interested in everything the Argentinean pianist does, less ardent listeners ...
Gabriela Montero is a young Venezuelan pianist, a product of that country's fabled system of music education. She has made several albums of conventionally played masterworks, but, at the urging of no less than Martha Argerich, has turned as well to releases featuring her own personal brand of improvisation. The cover art doesn't give you much of ...
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