Pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been a champion of the music of Philip Glass, with various recordings on the market, but this one is innovative in two ways. The first it shares with other Dinnerstein releases just previous to it, pairing works by Glass with standard repertory works of a similar general mood. The second is of a less premeditated nature. Due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, the album was recorded in Dinnerstein's Brooklyn home. It shares this setting with other recordings released in 2020, and the results ...
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Pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been a champion of the music of Philip Glass, with various recordings on the market, but this one is innovative in two ways. The first it shares with other Dinnerstein releases just previous to it, pairing works by Glass with standard repertory works of a similar general mood. The second is of a less premeditated nature. Due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, the album was recorded in Dinnerstein's Brooklyn home. It shares this setting with other recordings released in 2020, and the results have often been so pleasing that one wonders whether the practice might persist post-pandemic. The big argument in favor is that Schubert probably wrote his Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. 960, for a room very like the one here, filled with his friends and admirers. Dinnerstein crafts an interpretation to match the space, with quiet but distinct delineations of the fulcrum points in the vast opening movement and slow movement. The three Etudes of Glass, by contrast, were composed with...
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