No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: CHOPIN,F.Title: FAVORITE PIANO WORKSStreet Release Date: 02/13/1996

Claudio Arrau's meditative and weighty traversals of the concertos pale compared to the dynamism and note-to-note intensity of his live fifties versions. Eliahu Inbal's deferential, soggy leadership doesn't help either...

Chopin's two piano concertos have long been admired more as pianistic vehicles than as integrated works for piano and orchestra. But in his revelatory new recording, Krystian Zimerman suggests otherwise: The opening orchestral tuttis have so much more light, shade, orchestral color, and detail, you wonder if they've been rewritten...

11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works.

If it is possible to play the piano charismatically, then that is what Lang Lang does. His total identification with each piece gives his playing a warmth, a personal touch, that is unique. His performance of Mozart's K...

Revisiting the very repertoire featured on his concerto recording debut from the seventies, Emanuel Ax makes his first foray into the world of period instruments, playing a mid-1800s Erard. While its sound is not as big as that of a modern concert grand, the treble and bass registers have greater timbral differentiation...