Customer Review: Even though the majority of the pieces on the CD American Classics/Louis Moreau Gottschalk/Piano Music with Cecile Licad are Caribbean/Spanish in theme, one should not spend the 4th of July without playing "The Union, Paraphrase de concert on the national airs Star Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle,... more info
Customer Review: Piano playing of extraordinary romantic depth and breadth. Bolet is inside Liszt's mind, as Liszt's romantic self unfolds on the keyboard. It is as if Bolet is the master himself. Superlative recordings to boot!
Customer Review: The reviewers who complain of "naive" and "weak" orchestration should read the liner notes. The orchestrations are not Gottschalk's, mostly, but those of Richard Rosenberg, artistic director of the Hot Springs Music Festival. And while it may seem easy to blast Rosenberg, Gottschalk was no master of... more info
Customer Review: Having discovered Chopin's unique musical treasures in my pre-teens through Naxos discs featuring Szekely, Szokolay, Zaritskaya and Biret (readily available in my small home town), I acquired this Ashkenazy set in my teenage years--that is more than ten years ago--and considered it the definitive... more info
Customer Review: Gottschalk wrote a lot of very pleasing and colorful if not very deep piano music. Deep has its place, but not every moment is a Bach organ moment, and this is wonderful music when you want to relax to something light. Gottschalk drew on African American and American Folk influences as well as his... more info
Customer Review: I was amused by the harsh review by "The Music Fan." I knew Jorge Bolet. Jorge Bolet was a friend of mine. The Music Fan, you are NO Jorge Bolet.
Customer Review: This "Introuvables" set is indispensable of course for the admirers of Cziffra and of dazzling piano playing in general, but, as many others in the same series, it also proves somewhat frustrating, less for what it includes than for what it omits. It's great to have reissued the complete Liszt... more info
Customer Review: Having been listening to Chopin's celestial piano music ever since I was a young boy, I will probably never stop marveling at the pure beauty of his unique way of conjuring up those dangerously memorable themes, harmonies and figurations. There are days when one of his Etudes, Preludes, Mazurkas or... more info
