The next to best thing about Jonathan Biss' recording of the piano music of Beethoven and Schumann is that it exists. These days, having a flourishing international concert career with appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony is hard enough, but having a recording issued by one of the major labels is much harder. That EMI would actually have a series of debut recordings by young performers is amazing enough, that they should actually be good is all the more amazing. ...
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The next to best thing about Jonathan Biss' recording of the piano music of Beethoven and Schumann is that it exists. These days, having a flourishing international concert career with appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony is hard enough, but having a recording issued by one of the major labels is much harder. That EMI would actually have a series of debut recordings by young performers is amazing enough, that they should actually be good is all the more amazing. Because the best thing about Jonathan Biss' debut recording is Jonathan Biss.Biss' Beethoven is Romantic with a capital R and if he were playing almost anything but Beethoven's extraordinarily expressive Fantasy in G minor, Op. 77, or his extremely dramatic "Appassionato" Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, the results might be unbearable. But Biss' all-out emotional assault is coupled with a complete command of the works' extravagantly virtuoso writing and the results are astounding. Biss'...
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