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From the perfectly-judged opening bass notes of the F-minor Fantasy to the passionate conclusion of the F-minor Ballade, Mr. Smith once again enchants us... with the increasingly rare art of... —
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This Schubert disc is one that delights, moves and, as important, convinces... There is a probing mind at work here, one that never has recourse to dry academicism but, on the contrary, is constantly... —
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[Valerie Tryon] here resists any temptation to sensationalize the music... presenting the material with just the kind of unexaggerated clarity and directness that Février advocated... A fitting... —
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Victor Staub & Lazare-Lévy: The Complete Studio Recordings
Victor Staub (piano) & Lazare-Levy (piano)
For me, Victor Staub’s recordings, all from the late 1920s, are the most revelatory of the lot... His exquisitely pellucid touch, as consistent in fleet passagework as in sustained cantabile... —
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This is an agreeable surprise from several points of view. Valerie Tryon, a former student of Jacques Février, returns us to the illustrious epoch of pianists like Lefebure, Long, and Perlemuter.... —
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Ronald Smith’s... Beethoven may travel well-trodden paths but it’s landmark stuff. No question... Ronald Smith has never been short of challenging things to say. The eloquence and majesty of... —
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Nothing is overtly dramatic or given with special pleading. Always she allows the composer his own voice so that nothing obtrudes between creator and re-creator. —
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A substantial souvenir of the happiest of collaborations with her producer, Bryan Crimp, Tyron once more proclaims herself the most civilised of pianists. Here are all her unimpeachable virtues,... —
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