Van Cliburn plays Mozart, Debussy & Barber
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Composer or Director: Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Van Cliburn Collection
Magazine Review Date: 5/1991
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: GK60415
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Sonata for Piano No. 10 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Van Cliburn, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(3) Estampes, Movement: Soirée dans Grenade |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(3) Estampes, Movement: Jardins sous la pluie |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(12) Etudes, Movement: Pour les ocatves |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(24) Préludes, Movement: Les terrasses des audiences |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(24) Préludes, Movement: Feux d'artifice |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(6) Images, Movement: Reflets dans l'eau |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
Sonata for Piano |
Samuel Barber, Composer
Samuel Barber, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
Composer or Director: Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Van Cliburn Collection
Magazine Review Date: 5/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 66
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: GD60415
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Piano No. 10 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Van Cliburn, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(3) Estampes, Movement: Soirée dans Grenade |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(3) Estampes, Movement: Jardins sous la pluie |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(12) Etudes, Movement: Pour les ocatves |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(24) Préludes, Movement: Les terrasses des audiences |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(24) Préludes, Movement: Feux d'artifice |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
(6) Images, Movement: Reflets dans l'eau |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
Sonata for Piano |
Samuel Barber, Composer
Samuel Barber, Composer Van Cliburn, Piano |
Author:
And it is not just the Barber which makes this an exceptionally desirable reissue. Cliburn's Mozart is beautifully shaded, scrupulously stylish and sensitive to harmonic pulls towards the dark side; and his Debussy is both supple and suavely textured, with a wonderfully judged rhapsodic abandon in ''La soiree dans Grenade''. I could understand some listeners finding the Mozart a little too well-scrubbed and toy-soldierish in places, and there is a tendency for shapes in the Debussy pieces to be too spasmodic—the Octaves Study is not helped by an exaggerated response to caesuras, and ''Jardins sous la pluie'' is too fast and marred by persistent mis-reading of B sharps as B naturals. But all that detracts very little from a truly distinguished souvenir of Cliburn's artistry. If he chooses to continue his recent comeback to the concert platform, and perhaps to the recording studio as well, I'm sure lovers of piano music will have cause to rejoice.'
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