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2024-01-04 04:30:00
Igor Levit: Fantasia (CD Review)
by Karl NehringBach, J S: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String') (arr. for piano by A. Siloti); Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903; Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178; Der Doppelganger (No. 12 from Schwanengesang, S560, after Schubert); Berg: Klavierstück in B minor; Piano Sonata, Op. 1; Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Nuit de Noël. Igor Levit, piano. Sony Classical 19658811642Russian-German pianist Igor Levit (b. 1987) seems never to do things in a small way. When the pandemic shut things down back in 2020, for example, he began posting a series of videos on Twitter that featured his playing of a variety of works for piano. His recordings have typically been multi-disc releases with some sort of unifying theme. We have reviewed several of those recordings in the past, starting with Encounter, a two-CD set that saw Levit playing music by Busoni (his arrangements of works by Bach and Brahms), Reger, […]
2021-01-09 09:41:31
Mysteries: Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer on how combining music by a Soviet Russian composer and contemporary French one made a satisfying new disc
Sabine Weyer The Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer is releasing a disc this month on the ARS Produktion label, entitled Mysteries, combines the music of Russian / Soviet composer Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), celebrating his 140th anniversary, and the contemporary French composer Nicolas Bacri (born 1961), celebrating his 60th birthday. It is not an obvious pairing of composers, though neither is perhaps as well known as they ought to be and in fact it was Bacri who introduced Sabine to Mysaskovsky's music (Bacri dedicated one of his piano sonatas to Myaskovsky's memory). I caught up with Sabine by Skype to find out more. Along with many other works (his work-list is most impressive), Nicolas Bacri has written nine piano sonatas, and when Sabine first came across his music she listened to it and liked it, finding the piano sonatas fascinating. She started studying Bacri's music and […]
2020-12-02 08:34:17
A record dedicated to those who believe in ‘ the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination.’
Slavonic Reflections; Chopin, Janáček, Medtner, Lyadov; Nelly Akopian-Tamarina; Pentatone Reviewed by Bryce Morrison on 2 December 2020 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall, a highly personal selection of piano music from the distinguished Russian pianistChopin's Mazurkas and Janáček's Into the Mists with encores by Lyadov and Medtner, performed by Nelly Akopian-Tamarina (piano) recorded live at the Wigmore Hall, on Pentatone. Nelly Akopian-Tamarina’s recital entitled Slavonic Reflections given at the Wigmore Hall is a truly transcendental experience in the sense that it takes you far beyond the conventional or readily accessible. Never a pianist who uses a composer as a spring-board for personal and preening excess her playing is as natural as it is unselfconsciously exploratory, making you pause, reconsider, feel and think again in music filled with shadows and unresolved conflict. More than ever she confirms my view that the […]
2020-03-19 05:35:00
Bach: Works and Reworks (CD Review)
Vikingur Olafsson, piano. Deutsche Grammophon 4837769. By Karl W. Nehring CD 1:Works: performed by Vikingur Olafsson, piano: Prelude and Fughetta in G Major BWV 902 – Prelude; Chorale Prelude BWV 734 "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein" transcribed by Wilhelm Kempff; Prelude And Fugue in E minor BWV 855; Organ Sonata in E minor BWV 528 (transcr. August Stradal); Prelude and Fugue in D Major BWV 850; Chorale Prelude BWV 659 "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" (transcr. Busoni); Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 847; "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" BWV 54 (transcr. Olafsson); Aria variata in A minor BWV 989; Invention No. 12 in A Major BWV 783; Sinfonia No. 12 in A Major BWV 798; Partita No. 3 for Violin Solo in E Major BWV 1006 – 3. Gavotte (transcr. Rachmaninov); Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 855a – Prelude (transcr. to B minor by Alexander Siloti); […]
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