If you think the title After the Rain is silly, wait until you get to the subtitle: "The Soft Sounds of Erik Satie." Oh, well, never mind titles and subtitles: it is ultimately the music and performance that make or break the disc and, in this case, the music and performances are both superb. Satie was, of course, the utterly unclassifiable ...
As if the title -- The #1 Piano Album -- wasn't enough of a claim, the subtitle goes even further: "The best-loved piano works of all time." Of course it seems impossible to deliver on that statement even with two 75-minute-plus compact discs. But as the discs go rolling by -- as Uchida's elegantly turned interpretation of the opening Allegro of ...
Pascal Rogé has finally begun his recording cycle of the complete Debussy piano works with this disc of the two books of preludes. As expected, it is as well done as one could hope. Rogé effortlessly shapes the music in these preludes, making them evocative and in some cases, giving them character. Les collines d'Anacapri are delightfully animated ...
Notwithstanding its silly title, Denon's The Ultimate Most Relaxing Beethoven in the Universe is actually an enjoyable compilation of slow movements taken from several of the sonatas, chamber works, and symphonies, and one that lacks any of the minor problems associated with other titles in this series. Where some of Denon's Ultimate twofers are ...
Whatever else they were meant to do in life, the members of the Fitzwilliam Quartet were not meant to play César Franck's String Quartet. The Fitzwilliam was fine for those who like their Shostakovich dry and their Delius cool. But the Fitzwilliam lets it all hang out in its Franck recording, and with self-restraint gone, the players let loose ...
As beautiful a disc of Debussy's piano music as could be imagined, Pascal Rogé's second disc in his series of recordings of the master impressionist's piano music is as sublime as his first. Far more than his Debussy recordings for Decca from nearly 30 years earlier, Rogé's 2007 disc is intense, concentrated, and consistently inspired. His ...
For listeners who prefer their Ravel lushly textured, luminously colored, and luxuriantly impressionistic, this four-disc set of his orchestral music performed by Charles Dutoit and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal will be just the thing. Recorded between 1981 and 1995 in warmly opulent Decca sound and including all the canonical works plus ...
Certainly, there have been several tremendous recordings of Ravel's A minor Piano Trio over the years -- Richter, Kagan, and Gutman's heroic performance and Heifetz, Piatigorsky, and Rubinstein's sentimental performance come immediately to mind -- and, certainly, there have been a couple of tremendous recordings of Chausson's G minor Piano Trio ...
It may not contain everything written by French modernist composer Francis Poulenc -- the solo works, the chamber works, the stage works, and the songs with piano accompaniment are naturally not included -- but Charles Dutoit's five-disc set of the orchestral works, the concerted works, the sacred choral works, and the vocal works with orchestral ...
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