Schubert's last works for piano are rich in emotional content and in the way his writing suits the piano simply and yet, with sophistication. Oleg Marshev combines Schubert's last sonata, in B flat major, D. 960, with the three Klavierstücke, D. 946. Marshev has a consistent, rounded tone that works incredibly well at any dynamic level, so that ...
For many if not most listeners, the piano music the young Brahms' wrote before leaving Hamburg is terra incognita. How many listeners know the three Sonatas or the four Ballades or the several sets of Variations composed before the break-through Paganini or Handel Variations? Too few: the music's powerful expressivity, muscular virtuosity, ...
Oleg Marshev is a formidable virtuoso with strength, dexterity, and emotional range -- qualities that make him an ideal Liszt interpreter. Marshev tears into the Romantic master's music with undisguised pleasure. His B minor Sonata is huge in conception and execution with a deft fugue, a shattering climax, and a mysterious coda. His Gretchen is ...
Although each significant players in the Russian School of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the piano concertos of Pavel Pabst, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Scriabin have been largely neglected by comparison to the other titanic piano concertos to come from the likes of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. Unlike their contemporaries, ...
Though there are many recordings of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto superior to this one, there are few recordings of the Second or the completed Third Concerto as fine and hardly any recordings of the Concert Fantasia or the Allegro in C minor as capable. Because all these works -- that is, all the Russian composer's works for piano and ...
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