Puisant dans la riche réserve d’enregistrements réalisés à partir des...

Wagnérien illustre, Hans Knappertsbusch était un chef typique de la première...

Audite poursuit son oeuvre de dévoilement discographique en republiant les...

Mezzo-soprano Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) owned “the voice of the century”...

Die große, besondere Stimme der Flagstad erklinge in diesen Live-Mitschnitten...

A Jewish boy from the East End, Cutner Solomon went from exploited child prodigy to master pianist, his career abruptly cut short at 54 by a stroke – although he lived a further, crippled, 32 years. These RIAS recordings are of typical repertoire: Bach’s Italian Concerto, Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ and Op.2:3 sonatas, Carnaval, Brahms Intermezzi and a Chopin group including the F minor Fantasy. The Audite essayist finds a ‘holy sobriety’ in his playing – never overstated, elegant but not emasculate. Few ‘Beethoven pianists’ convince equally in Chopin, as Solomon could (eg, the Op.9:1 Nocturne here). A bonus is the fine sound quality of these 23/24 Feb ’56 tapes.

Le bicentenaire de la naissance de Frédéric Chopin aura largement éclipsé...

Harold Schonberg, Amerikas Klavierpapst, nannte ihn "one of the most finished...

Drei Janacek-Streichquartette vereinigt diese CD. Aber ein neues Werk zu...

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Die Knappertsbusch-Box von Audite (Edel)