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Italian Suite / Piano Sonatas / Transcriptions
Kempff, Biret
Italian Suite / Piano Sonatas / Transcriptions
Genre: Classical
 
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All Artists: Kempff, Biret
Title: Italian Suite / Piano Sonatas / Transcriptions
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Marco Polo
Release Date: 12/3/1993
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Sonatas, Suites, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 730099345224
 

CD Reviews

Disappointing
06/27/1999
(2 out of 5 stars)

"I've been looking for a CD of Kempff's own recording of his transcriptions ever since I got rid of my LP collection. It was one of my favorite piano records. I finally decided I'd buy the above CD, based partially on the other review. Big mistake. If this is supposed to be a tribute to Kempff, it certainly doesn't sound that way. Biret's renditions are cold, dull, and usually too fast. Luckily, on a trip to Germany, I found the Kempff version. Don't buy the Biret disc. Instead, have someone in Germany send you the CD of the original (why Amazon doesn't stock it instead of this thing, I don't know). It's on Deutsche Grammophon's Galleria series, and the catalog number is 439 108-2."
A lovely recording
Gregory W. Payne | Connecticut, USA | 02/18/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The performance here of the Handel "Menuet in g minor" is worth the purchase price of the disk. It's a transcendentally simple piece--most of it simple passage work--but the result is very spiritual. If you know and love Dinu Lipati's recordings of Bach chorales transcribed for piano, you will like this disk."