Left Hand Archive
Leon Fleisher – All the Things You Are [TrackList follows] = Bridge
Keyboard veteran Leon Fleisher returns with a mostly left-hand-only recital; often paying homage to his own repute.
RAVEL: The Piano Concertos; Mirors – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano/ The Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez – DGG
Ravel’s two piano concertos are given stodgy performances, missing the atmosphere and spirit of these masterpieces.
FRANZ SCHMIDT: Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Piano, Left Hand and Orchestra; Piano Concerto in E-flat Major for Piano, Left Hand and Orchestra – Markus Becker, piano/ NDR Radiophilharmonie/ Eiji Oue – CPO
Pianist, cellist, composer, and pedagogue, Franz Schmidt studied with Anton Bruckner and Theodor Leschetizky, and worked with Gustav Mahler.