Anyone who remembers Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976), raise your hand. Your virtual non-response is understandable. The Russian-born pianist who later became a French citizen and ended his career in America rarely gets more than a brief paragraph in the standard references. He also rarely gets reissued with hardly any of his Columbia or RCA recordings still available and no two-disc commemorative volume in Philips' Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century series. From in his prime from the '20s through the '50s, however, ...
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Anyone who remembers Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976), raise your hand. Your virtual non-response is understandable. The Russian-born pianist who later became a French citizen and ended his career in America rarely gets more than a brief paragraph in the standard references. He also rarely gets reissued with hardly any of his Columbia or RCA recordings still available and no two-disc commemorative volume in Philips' Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century series. From in his prime from the '20s through the '50s, however, Brailowsky was often praised for his supremely polished yet deeply expressive style of performing, although he was also sometimes criticized for his tendency to play handfuls of wrong notes without warning.This disc coupling Brailowsky's 1952 recording of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony under Enrique Jorda and his 1954 solo recording of Chopin's Waltzes from New York shows him at his best and his worst. In both performances, there are moments of pure...
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