Achucarro & Rattle: Nights in The Gardens of Spain

Excellent!!
Joaquin Achucarro is a well know pianist with a very distinguished career. What makes this Blu-ray disc special and an exceptional one is the choice of repertoire. Falla's Night in the Gardens of Spain is just an incredible composition. Anyone who has visited Spain will immediately relate to it. It is recorded in Berlin without an audience, it is like they are playing for you only! The second part, Achucarro recital in Madrid is just extraordinary. Although it is entitled as Falla and his friends, it is heavy on Ravel (at least in performance time). The sound that Achucarro achieves with the piano, well reproduced by the technicians, is a pleasure. Even the fortissimos sound delicate. I strongly recommend this Blu-ray to those who want something slightly different than the "conventional" recitals and enjoy a perfect piano sound.

Like a Monet in Sound
These performances were my key to understanding this period of music.
Achucarro is perfect.
Now I understand why his Brahms's recordings are so powerful.
This is a must own recording.
I know what I like and I love this.



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2010 Verbier Festival

Very satisfying debut recital at Verbier
This is Adam Laloum's debut performance at the Verbier Festival, the recital being recorded in 2010 just one year after his winning of the 2009 Clara Haskil competition.

Laloum's playing can reasonably be described as expressively lyrical and that description would fit all the music that he plays in this recital. His technique is impressively faultless and his familiarity with the keyboard enables him to concentrate on the performance with scarcely a single glance downwards at the keys or his fingers.

The recital starts with Schumann's Davidbundlertanz and immediately one is aware that the interpretation is in safe hands with every nuance depicting the characters and contrasts between Florestan and Eusebius brought effortlessly to our attention. The other main piece in the recital is Schubert's 18th Sonata, which again, is given a gently expressive reading. Between these two items are a couple of Debussy's Preludes where `General Lavine-eccentric' is given with a...





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