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2022-10-03 18:44:19
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2021-11-10 12:00:00
John Dante Prevedini listens to music by American composer Pierre Jalbert. '... Jalbert ... implies a novel dimension of meaning by presenting distinct sonic universes in a syntactically suggestive sequence.'
2021-09-23 07:52:31
On DSCH: Igor Levit combines large-scale works by two two highly independent, creative minds, the Russian Dmitri Shostakovich and the Lancastrian-born Scot Ronald Stevenson
[…] on the music's interior qualities. The references to Shostakovich's wider repertoire and the way the different movements hint at music from his symphonies is woven into the whole, and Levit brings you back to the fierce concentration on the interior monologue that the music represents. Tatiana Nikolayeva recorded the complete set four times (1962, 1987, 1990, 1992) and other complete performances on disc have been given by Roger Woodward, Keith Jarrett, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Konstantin Scherbakov, David Jalbert, and Olli Mustonen, so Levit has formidable company. Stevenson's Passacaglia is a work which in its sheer bravura has to be heard live [Levit performed it at Wigmore Hall in 2019, see my review]. Whereas Shostakovich was writing with a particular pianist in mind (Tatiana Nikolayeva premiered 24 Preludes and Fugues in 1952), Stevenson was a pianist/composer in the image of Liszt and Busoni and he puts this sense of pianistic technical bravura to work with a […]
2021-07-28 18:11:36
It takes more than just technical chops to pull off two-piano repertoire. Like tennis, piano doubles require simpatico energy, a similar mindset, complementary skills and, given the sheer number of notes involved, a kind of sixth sense for what your partner is doing. It’s no wonder so many of the world’s most successful piano duets [...]
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