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2020-07-24 19:37:37
The singer-songwriter’s debut album balances the menacing with the exquisitely beautiful
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Faces of classical music
2019-08-23 23:46:00
The best new classical albums: August 2019
[…] label featured a performance of Beethoven's Op.101 sonata that revealed this young pianist's affinity for the composer's linear aesthetic, if not necessarily the combative emotional subtext behind the notes. One can say the same vis-à-vis Shin's reading of Beethoven's Op.109, the opening salvo on his second Steinway release.Shin conveys the first movement's improvisatory qualities well. His Prestissimo is contrapuntally aware and mostly clear, but without the litheness and dynamism one hears from Annie Fischer, Freddy Kempf, Igor Levit, and Stewart Goodyear. Although Shin's phrasing of the opening theme of the third-movement variations suggests little of the music's implicit calm and repose, piano mavens will notice his careful voice leading – and does Shin employ the una corda pedal on the repeats? Variation 2's broken rhythms come off uniformly genial rather than tension inducing, while Variation 3 is too sedate and studio-bound for such helter-skelter music. Shin clarifies Variation 5's difficult […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-08-13 15:44:18
Your favourite pianists for each composer?
Bach: Gould / Richter / Feinberg Mozart: Uchida / Perahia Haydn: Brendel Beethoven: Schnabel / Kempf
2019-07-20 20:52:32
It takes some gumption to open a Schumann recital with the Toccata, especially if you’re a relatively young pianist staking turf alongside formidable catalog competition. Sheng Cai has energy to burn, but more in terms of nerves than power. Like Freddy Kempf, Cai enters with the main section a fraction of a beat late, dissipating […]
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