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, ...
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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