Alejandro Rutty - Conscious Sleepwalker - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This recording should be seen in that manner as a beginning, a solo recording debut by Alejandro Algarra in which he confronts two colossi of the instrument. It is quite a recording milestone to tackle these two essentials. A real challenge both for him as a performer and for IBS Classical as a record tag. So please do not be deceived by the apparent simplicity and unpretentiousness of the term prelude. Quite the opposite, in fact. Nor should a prelude be understood in this case as a prolegomenon to a major piece (InchPreludes to what?Inch, as André Gide wondered in his famous Notes sur Chopin), but as individual works which, taken as a whole, represent a major technical and interpretative challenge; undoubtedly one of the all-time highs of piano literature.

Robert Schumann's Introduction and Allegro, Op. 134 performed by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and Svetlana Botanina with Ilmar Lapinsch conducting.

Alain Lefèvre - Blissfully Sleepless [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/21/2006