Nothing in the packaging of this release explains the title razor blades, little pills, and big pianos, but it was accompanied by a burst of publicity outlining prior substance abuse on the part of British pianist James Rhodes. He seems to be aiming at occupying a niche like that carved out by the redoubtable Nigel Kennedy on the violin, with the unorthodox image balanced by playing that is competent and actually fairly straightforward. The program doesn't have anything to do with razor blades, consisting of a recital that ...
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Nothing in the packaging of this release explains the title razor blades, little pills, and big pianos, but it was accompanied by a burst of publicity outlining prior substance abuse on the part of British pianist James Rhodes. He seems to be aiming at occupying a niche like that carved out by the redoubtable Nigel Kennedy on the violin, with the unorthodox image balanced by playing that is competent and actually fairly straightforward. The program doesn't have anything to do with razor blades, consisting of a recital that avoids contemporary music and runs from Bach to the early twentieth century, which, in other words, is not just straight-ahead but downright conservative. In virtuoso pieces that lead him through prescribed channels, Rhodes does well. A special pleasure is the Etincelles, Op. 35/6, "Sparks," of the unjustly neglected Moritz Moszkowski, and Rhodes also brings presence to a pair of Bach arrangements, the well-known Busoni Chaconne and the Prelude in B minor rendered into Romantic...
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