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| Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 5 | 
 enlarge | Artists: Domenico Scarlatti, Luigi Boccherini, Franz Schubert, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel, Johann Ii And Josef Strauss, Francois-joseph Gossec, Franz Lehar, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Fryderyk Chopin, Leon Jessel, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Gustav Lange, Balazs Szokolay
Label: Naxos
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 730099516822
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ASIN: B0000013LJ
Release Date: February 15, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Son in E, K.162 | | • | Minuet in A | | • | Marche Militaire in D | | • | Bagatelle in a 'Fuer Elise' | | • | Album fuer die Jugend Op.68: No.28 Erinnerung | | • | Album fuer die Jugend Op.68: No. 12 Knecht Ruprecht | | • | Venetian Boat Song, Op.30 No.6 | | • | Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op.65 No.6 | | • | Pavane pour une infante defunte | | • | Pizzicato-Polka | | • | Gavotte 'rosine' in D | | • | 'Vilja' from The Merry Window | | • | Arabesque in G | | • | Serenade | | • | Nocturne in E Flat, Op.9 No.2 | | • | Parade Of The Tin Soldiers, Op.123 | | • | Romance in f, Op.5 |
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| Customer Reviews:
No technical problems, but slow pieces rather mechanical December 10, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the third of the five piano recitals that Balazs Szokolay recorded for Naxos in the series ?Romantic Piano Favorites?. (The other five CDs were recorded by his Hungarian colleague Peter Nagy). As with the first two recitals, Szokolay commends himself as a pianist who has no technical problems, mastering with ease the fast and showy pieces that require virtuoso technique or even acrobatics. His Scarlatti, Schubert, Grieg and Gossec are eminently ?listenable? and he appears to come into his own with such light pieces as Leon Jessel?s ?Parade of the Tin Soldiers? or Gustav Lange?s ?Der kleine Postillon?. Unfortunately, he cannot convince with his performances of truly romantic repertoire or of slower pieces which ought to express wistfulness and great feeling. His ?Pavane pour une infante defunte? (Ravel) is, to my mind, abysmal, just a mechanical playing of notes without any of the emotion or ?gut feeling? I have come to expect from this music. The same could be said for Beethoven?s ?Fuer Elise?, which Szokolay takes quite relentlessly; his Mendelssohn, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Debussy suffer from a similar apparent desire to ?press on regardless? and never to linger over a particularly poignant note. And for this reason I cannot give the CD more than a rather generous three stars despite the superior sound quality (digital recording made in January 1988 at the Italian Institute in Budapest).
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