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	The Historic Return: Carnegie Hall 1965; The 1966 Concerts from: Sony : essential recording:Sony's series documenting Horowitz's mature career offers many indispensable items, including 'live' (with studio touchups) recordings of his mid-1960s return to the concert stage after a prolonged hiatus. The Bach-Busoni is a dazzling opener, followed by a titanic Schumann Fantasy in C amply illustrating Horowitz's total identification with the composer. The performance abounds with tightly controlled nervous energy, precise articulation, and gorgeously shaded timbres. A crisp Haydn Sonata, a marvelously shaded Scriabin, a poetic Schumann Traumerei, and more are all indispensable. Not to be missed: the pregnant pauses and ...
	Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 by: Dmitriev :Album Description:'Dmitriev’s technique was distinguished by crystalline clarity...everyone felt that something extraordinary was taking place, something spellbinding, that the profound and deeply sensitive pianist was producing a true work of art.' – Pride (UK) Born in Moscow in 1974, Peter Dmitriev was the winner of the first prize and a gold medal at the sixth Musical Competition in Tokyo in 1995. For him this meant the breakthrough in his international career. Since then, Dmitriev has been giving piano concerts regularly in various European cities, Japan and Korea, while increasing his recognition ...
	Buxtehude: Harpsichord Works from: Naxos :Album Description:'Dmitriev’s technique was distinguished by crystalline clarity...everyone felt that something extraordinary was taking place, something spellbinding, that the profound and deeply sensitive pianist was producing a true work of art.' – Pride (UK) Born in Moscow in 1974, Peter Dmitriev was the winner of the first prize and a gold medal at the sixth Musical Competition in Tokyo in 1995. For him this meant the breakthrough in his international career. Since then, Dmitriev has been giving piano concerts regularly in various European cities, Japan and Korea, while increasing his recognition ...
	Virtuoso Piano from: Elektra / Wea :Album Description:'Dmitriev’s technique was distinguished by crystalline clarity...everyone felt that something extraordinary was taking place, something spellbinding, that the profound and deeply sensitive pianist was producing a true work of art.' – Pride (UK) Born in Moscow in 1974, Peter Dmitriev was the winner of the first prize and a gold medal at the sixth Musical Competition in Tokyo in 1995. For him this meant the breakthrough in his international career. Since then, Dmitriev has been giving piano concerts regularly in various European cities, Japan and Korea, while increasing his recognition ...
	Jane Parker-Smith at the Great Seifert Organ of St. Marien Basilika Kevelaer from: Avie :Album Description:'Dmitriev’s technique was distinguished by crystalline clarity...everyone felt that something extraordinary was taking place, something spellbinding, that the profound and deeply sensitive pianist was producing a true work of art.' – Pride (UK) Born in Moscow in 1974, Peter Dmitriev was the winner of the first prize and a gold medal at the sixth Musical Competition in Tokyo in 1995. For him this meant the breakthrough in his international career. Since then, Dmitriev has been giving piano concerts regularly in various European cities, Japan and Korea, while increasing his recognition ...
	Clarinet Quintet in B Flat Major from: Marco Polo :Album Description:'Dmitriev’s technique was distinguished by crystalline clarity...everyone felt that something extraordinary was taking place, something spellbinding, that the profound and deeply sensitive pianist was producing a true work of art.' – Pride (UK) Born in Moscow in 1974, Peter Dmitriev was the winner of the first prize and a gold medal at the sixth Musical Competition in Tokyo in 1995. For him this meant the breakthrough in his international career. Since then, Dmitriev has been giving piano concerts regularly in various European cities, Japan and Korea, while increasing his recognition ...
	Giovanni Gabrieli: In Festo Sanctissimae Trinitatis from: Ricercar :Album Description:La Fenice and the Namur Chamber Choir give a second life to the music of Gabrieli. Devoted to the Feast of the Trinity, a major event of the liturgical year at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice. Includes a full catalog of the entire Ricercar 2008 collection.
	Gyorgy Sandor Plays Prokofiev from: Vox (Classical) : :Most of this music is not well known. Prokofiev buried a lot of imaginative music in sets like Tales of the Old Grandmother and Visions Fugitives (not to mention such imaginatively titled sets as Three Pieces and Four Pieces). For those who love Prokofiev's blend of lyricism and cynicism, there are probably many wonderful discoveries to be made in this set. Gyorgy Sandor's recording is rather dated, and he doesn't play Prokofiev's most virtuosic music with the same fury as he does Bartók's. But he is a musician of great resource ...
	Piano Music, Vol. 1 from: Marco Polo : :Most of this music is not well known. Prokofiev buried a lot of imaginative music in sets like Tales of the Old Grandmother and Visions Fugitives (not to mention such imaginatively titled sets as Three Pieces and Four Pieces). For those who love Prokofiev's blend of lyricism and cynicism, there are probably many wonderful discoveries to be made in this set. Gyorgy Sandor's recording is rather dated, and he doesn't play Prokofiev's most virtuosic music with the same fury as he does Bartók's. But he is a musician of great resource ...
	Menotti: The Telephone from: Nuova Era :Album Description:Menotti's 'neo-Rossinian' short comic opera The Telephone was first performed in 1947. This recording comes from a revival at La Scala in 1991. The Old Maid and the Thief was an opera Menotti wrote for radio in 1939. A theme from the opera inspired this 1953 composition rooted in Italian Renaissance organ style. The seven Canti della Lontananza, or 'Songs of Absence,' were written in 1967 and dedicated to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Gian Carlo Menotti (b. 1911), an Italian-American who has dared to center his career on writing operas, won the ...