The music of György Kurtág, who celebrated his 90th birthday in February, is enjoying a richly deserved if belated groundswell of recordings. It forms the linchpin of CDs by two duo piano teams, Antoine Françoise and Robin Green and the siblings Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl.
Françoise-Green are intelligent and sensitive musicians with a genuine...
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Listening to his impressive new recording, it’s easy to understand why Cristian Budu won the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey three years ago this September. A Brazilian of Romanian descent who studied at the University of São Paulo and the New England Conservatory, Budu is a stunningly original pianist with musical insight and maturity that c...
The unusual trajectory of Mélodie Zhao’s recording career began with a set of Chopin Etudes, recorded when she was 13, and has progressed through Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes and a complete set of Beethoven sonatas. Now, at 21, Zhao has made her first recording with orchestra, the august Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Michail Jurowski, in...
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