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Music : Stravinsky: Works for PianoIn association with Amazon.comfrom: EMI Classics List Price: $11.98 Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $1.99 (17%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0724358607321 Label: EMI Classics Manufacturer: EMI Classics Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: EMI Classics Release Date: February 15, 2005 Studio: EMI Classics Sales Rank: 167167 MPN: 86073 Disc 1:
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![]() Rating: - parts of it LAMEOne thing that really pissed me off with this album is how Michel Beroff does his own thing and does NOT follow the tempo markings. People think "oh whatever the heck I feel is the tempo" but it takes away from the character of a piece. For example in "Les cinq doigts" he plays the Lento as an Allegro and everything else the same fast tempo. It makes everything this loud and fast music when there's much more personality in this master gem that Stravinsky composed. Most of the CD sounds ... Read More Rating: - A large sampling of Stravinsky's piano music.I bought this cd primarily for "Movements for Piano and Orchestra", a short piece (about 9 minutes) using the 12 tone serial technique developed by Arnold Schoenberg. It is intriguing to hear the "neo-classicist" Stravinsky write in this style. To my ears, and I'm a fan of 12 tone, no new ground is broken here by Stravinsky (the piece was written in 1958-9, seven years after Schoenberg's death) but it's a good piece. The rest of the works are tonal. I'm not knowledgable as to whether this ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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