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American pianist, composer, and teacher
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2023-10-30 07:30:52
Since the late 1990s Konstantin Scherbakov has been working his way through recording Leopold Godowsky’s complete piano music for Marco Polo, saving the (in)famous studies on Chopin’s Études for last. The first 25 studies appeared on Volume 14. This fifteenth and final volume contains the remaining studies. Scherbakov’s technical aplomb and stylistic affinity hold their […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-01 23:03:23
Gravity Waves and Curveballs: Sherman Remembered
[…] never missed a note, he just never missed a note, and he played with these extremely flexible, almost soft hands, that just sort of caressed the keyboard in an effortless way, effortless. For me playing is full of effort, and trying, and working hard. That is the polarity, the opposite pole, but he is a very charming and very sweet, good-natured human being. By now that he doesn’t have to prove anything by playing the Godowsky versions of the Chopin etudes or any knuckle-busters; he is letting some of his initial sweetness come through the standard repertoire. I heard him play the Schubert B-flat posthumous sonata and it was exactly that kind of ‘head mixture’, [with] his kindness and effortless good nature, and it rolled right in the tenderness of the music and the lyricism of it. It was very compelling. But this is the point: it was one way […]
2022-05-15 05:44:57
The contrapuntal awareness distinguishing Emanuele Delucchi’s piano interpretations of Godowsky’s Chopin Studies informs his very different aesthetic as a composer. His Third, Fifth, and Sixth Ricercares for piano basically transplant Frescobaldi into the 21st century, and strike a balance between that composer’s rhapsodic language and the ambiguous tonality we sometimes hear in the polyphonic keyboard […]
2021-07-31 08:38:11
A strong affinity for Russian music: I chat to pianist Sonya Bach about her recent Rachmaninov disc, studying with Lazar Berman and more
[…] who is amazing and she never stops getting emotional when listening to his music, whilst the symphonies of Beethoven are a complete universe in their own right. Prokofiev and Rachmaninov are there too, and she comments that she loves Prokofiev as a pianist. Sonya Bach During lockdown she brought back a wide selection of pieces into her repertoire, Prokofiev's sonatas and Romeo and Juliet, music by Ravel and Godowsky's arrangement of Bach, and any one of these projects could be her next recording. She is still evaluating what she might release next.Sonya Bach on Rubicon Classics Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2, Preludes Op. 23 nos. 4, 5, 6, Moments Musicaux Op. 6 nos 1-6 - Sony Bach - Rubicon Classics Chopin: Études - Sonya Bach - Rubicon Classics Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Italian Concerto - Sonya Bach, English Chamber Orchestra - Rubicon Classics […]
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