Jonathan Woolf reviews Christopher Atzinger’s new recording of the Piano Music of John Knowles Paine on MusicWeb International:
“all thanks are due to Christopher Atzinger for getting to grips with a body of Paine’s piano repertoire. It shows Paine’s rootedness in the German romantic literature of his time; the Romance, Op.39 is both gentle and contrastingly rapid, the much earlier Romance Op.12 being a more Sturm und Drang affair, afflicted with nervous intensity, its stalking figures and March themes neatly meeting a B section full of insouciant, carefree elegance. … Atzinger locates the essentially relaxed and good humoured element in Paine’s writing and he has been attractively recorded.”
—Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International
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