On recordings, Iowa-based, Russian-born pianist Ksenia Nosikova has heretofore distinguished herself with critically praised recordings of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage for Centaur Records and a fine solo piano disc for Profil Edition Gunter Hänssler Flight and Fire, devoted to the music of Lera Auerbach. In this Profil Edition Gunter Hänssler release, Music for Piano & Chamber Orchestra, Nosikova contrasts Liszt's prognosticative Malédiction for piano and strings with earlier works by Felix Mendelssohn and Muzio Clementi. ...
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On recordings, Iowa-based, Russian-born pianist Ksenia Nosikova has heretofore distinguished herself with critically praised recordings of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage for Centaur Records and a fine solo piano disc for Profil Edition Gunter Hänssler Flight and Fire, devoted to the music of Lera Auerbach. In this Profil Edition Gunter Hänssler release, Music for Piano & Chamber Orchestra, Nosikova contrasts Liszt's prognosticative Malédiction for piano and strings with earlier works by Felix Mendelssohn and Muzio Clementi. The Mendelssohn is early, indeed; composed in 1822 when he was 13 years old, it is a dark and determined work in the manner of his string symphonies and "Hebrides" Overture, yet remains the most obscure of Mendelssohn's three solo piano concertos. Clementi's piano concerto, written in the 1780s but surviving only in a copy made by a third party, with altered instrumentation in 1796, is by far the least often heard of these works. The Mendelssohn work is a good match for Liszt's...
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