Special offer. Copland - Piano Works
Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
Benjamin Pasternack… plays with command and force. The close balance emphasises the shallow piano but provides a keen, edgy brilliance, suiting Copland’s preference for a sound that is ‘lean,...
Special offer. Copland - Piano Works
Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
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Benjamin Pasternack… plays with command and force. The close balance emphasises the shallow piano but provides a keen, edgy brilliance, suiting Copland’s preference for a sound that is ‘lean,...
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Aaron Copland
9th Jan 2015
James selects some of his favourite recordings of the music of the quintessentially American composer, Aaron Copland.
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Benjamin Pasternack… plays with command and force. The close balance emphasises the shallow piano but provides a keen, edgy brilliance, suiting Copland’s preference for a sound that is ‘lean, percussive and rather harmonically severe’
January 2015
A survey of Copland's major works for solo piano from pianist Benjamin Pasternack, presenting a different side of the composer to those familiar only with his Americana style of composition. The main work on the disc is the half-hour, quasi-twelve-tone Piano Fantasy, a difficult work to bring off, but which is given an impressive rendition by Pasternack.
