The Naxos label is perhaps at its best in reviving composers like Dmitry Kabalevsky; figures, perhaps associated with a national school, whose music stands apart from the grand trends of the twentieth century yet is marked by craftsmanship in which one can find undiminished enjoyment. In its day, the piano pieces heard here attracted no less an admirer than Vladimir Horowitz. "Not the least of their attractions," notes annotator Richard Whitehouse, "is the acuity with which they reflect the spirit of the time without ...
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The Naxos label is perhaps at its best in reviving composers like Dmitry Kabalevsky; figures, perhaps associated with a national school, whose music stands apart from the grand trends of the twentieth century yet is marked by craftsmanship in which one can find undiminished enjoyment. In its day, the piano pieces heard here attracted no less an admirer than Vladimir Horowitz. "Not the least of their attractions," notes annotator Richard Whitehouse, "is the acuity with which they reflect the spirit of the time without venturing into overtly radical or inherently reactionary musical territory." Kabalevsky owed a debt to Prokofiev, especially in the early Piano Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 6, but his voice is distinctive. He adheres to traditional tonality, but the structures of the individual movements, except in the two little sonatinas that round off the album, owe little to the neo-classical idea. Instead Kabalevsky breaks up the outer movements into well-wrought sections that often reach a peak of...
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