Over the past 20 years, Chicago-born and Boston-based pianist Andrew Rangell has devoted his career to the best and the highest works in the repertoire. From his early recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's late sonatas on Dorian to his later recordings of Chopin's mazurkas and Schubert's last sonata on Bridge, Rangell has deliberately sought out the profoundest music for his instrument, and through his commanding technique, prodigious intellect, and consummate artistry has created a series of recordings ...
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Over the past 20 years, Chicago-born and Boston-based pianist Andrew Rangell has devoted his career to the best and the highest works in the repertoire. From his early recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's late sonatas on Dorian to his later recordings of Chopin's mazurkas and Schubert's last sonata on Bridge, Rangell has deliberately sought out the profoundest music for his instrument, and through his commanding technique, prodigious intellect, and consummate artistry has created a series of recordings that stand comparison to the best ever released. Rangell continued his winning streak with this 2007 two-disc set of Book One of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Naturally, he plays it on a modern piano, a Hamburg Steinway D, to be precise, and naturally, he plays it as a modern pianist, a Juilliard trained virtuoso, to be exact. Not that he abuses, or even much uses, the pedals to sustain a line. For Rangell, clarity is all, and in his hands, everything is clear -- luminously clear....
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