Gershwin, MacDowell, Villa-Lobos & Ives

Szidon’s outstanding 1970 coupling of the Gershwin and MacDowell concertos on CD at last. Add one of the finest Villa-Lobos recitals ever recorded and a devastating account of Ives’s wrist-crippling Concord Sonata, and you’re in piano heaven. Julian Haylock

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Julian Haylock

Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:56 pm

COMPOSERS: Gershwin,Macdowell,Villa-Lobos & Ives
LABELS: LPO/E Downes
ALBUM TITLE: Piano music of the Americas
PERFORMER: Roberto Szidon (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: DG 477 5439

Szidon’s outstanding 1970 coupling of the Gershwin and MacDowell concertos on CD at last. Add one of the finest Villa-Lobos recitals ever recorded and a devastating account of Ives’s wrist-crippling Concord Sonata, and you’re in piano heaven. Julian Haylock

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