IDAGIO | Piano Recital: Berman, Daniel - Wild, E. / Bach, J.S. / Balakirev, M.A. / Infante, M. / Medtner, N. / Liszt, F. 5709499483008

Featuring

Daniel Berman
Earl Wild
Johann Sebastian Bach
Frédéric Chopin
Manuel Infante
Nikolai Medtner

Franz Liszt

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Interpretation

Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) was famous for his "piano orchestrations" of works like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, filling out chords and adding inner voices.

Composer Biography

Mili Balakirev (1837-1910), a Russian composer, is most famous for his difficult virtuoso piano work 'Islamey'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Karl Tausig (1841-1871), one of Liszt's students, composed sophisticated transcriptions and original works for piano, carrying on his teacher's tradition.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Although Manuel Infante (1883-1958) spent most of his life in Paris, all of his music is influenced by the Spain of his youth.

Album & Artwork

This album features selections from recitals performed at the "Rarities of Piano Music" festival in Husum, Germany, in 1992 and 1995.

Performer Biography

The American virtuoso Earl Wild (b. 1915) was chosen by Toscanini to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the NBC Symphony Orchestra early in his career.

Compositional Technique

Nicholas Medtner (1880-1951) was not interested in overtly virtuoso piano writing for its own sake, and his complex musical language can be difficult to understand.