Samuel Barber -- as can be heard in the song accompaniments and few demos he recorded -- was an excellent pianist. Though his catalog of piano music is not as extensive as his output for voice and piano, it is significant and is found in all parts of Barber's career. Late pianist John Browning was often described as Barber's "favorite" pianist; he was the dedicatee and first performer of Barber's Piano Concerto (1963), the work that won Barber his second Pulitzer Prize. Browning recorded Barber's concerto twice and also ...
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Samuel Barber -- as can be heard in the song accompaniments and few demos he recorded -- was an excellent pianist. Though his catalog of piano music is not as extensive as his output for voice and piano, it is significant and is found in all parts of Barber's career. Late pianist John Browning was often described as Barber's "favorite" pianist; he was the dedicatee and first performer of Barber's Piano Concerto (1963), the work that won Barber his second Pulitzer Prize. Browning recorded Barber's concerto twice and also recorded the Piano Sonata (1949) separately for Desto in 1971 before recording what Browning regarded as the whole, legitimate piano solo cycle for MusicMasters in 1993, here reissued on Nimbus. No two recorded collections of Barber's piano music, even those designated as "complete," have the same contents; in this case, Browning decided to forgo the piano solo incarnation of the four-hand Souvenirs, Op. 28 (1952), though he added, for the first time, the first of Barber's two early...
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