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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a Delos Spotify Playlist! Albums in the playlist: All the Heart of Me Love Is Everywhere New Love Must Rise Wild Mountain Thyme Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a Delos Spotify Playlist! Albums in the playlist: All the Heart of Me Love Is Everywhere New Love Must Rise Wild Mountain Thyme Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music
It seems everyone is raving about Kirsten Johnson’s new recording, Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music, and Gramophone has joined the chorus with a new review and interview in their January 2014 issue! Interview: Gramophone: What attracted you to Arthur Foote? Kirsten Johnson: I first encountered him when I was a student in the States —…
Here’s an unqualified RAVE review of Kirsten Johnson’s Foote piano album, which appeared in the December/January issue of Crescendo magazine: one of Germany’s most prestigious arts publications: “My God! What fantastic piano music this is! And the composer is … who? Arthur Foote? Well and good – but until now, we may only have known,…
ClassicsToday gives Kirsten Johnson’s new release Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music, a 10/10 for Artistic Quality and a 10/10 for Sound Quality, and names Foote as “An Unsung American Master.” “Where has this delightful, well-crafted, thoroughly idiomatic, tuneful (though harmonically conservative), and unpretentious piano music been for the past century? Listen to any piece at…
German classical music blog The Listener, has a wonderful new review for our recent Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music release. The review is translated into English below by Lindsay Koob and can be found in the original German at www.incoda.de. An Exceptional CD: Arthur Foote — Complete Piano Music An Absolutely Outstanding And Surprising Discovery…
Arthur Foote Complete Piano Music Kirsten Johnson, piano Three CDs for the price of one! “ Kirsten Johnson’s loving mastery of this music and skillful, nuanced pianism are a delight.” — Classics Today The above comment is typical of critical response to the work of pianist Kirsten Johnson. Among her more unusual areas of specialty…
Breaking down each CD in Kirsten Johnson’s 3-disc Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music recording: CD 3 begins with Foote’s Op. 52 set of 20 Preludes: most run under a minute in length. But these might just as well been called studies or etudes, as each deals with a different problem of piano technique, very much…
Breaking down each CD in Kirsten Johnson’s 3-disc Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music recording (Click here for Disc One): CD 2 begins with firm evidence of Foote the piano pedagogue: his Nine Studies, Op. 27 – while they may lack the consistent flashes of genius found in Chopin’s 27 Etudes – still demonstrate the composer’s…
Breaking down each CD in Kirsten Johnson’s 3-disc Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music recording: In the first CD’s opening Trois Morceaux cycle, it becomes quickly apparent that Frederic Chopin is probably Foote’s salient influence; the first and third movements (‘Impromptu’ and ‘Mazurka’) are especially reminiscent of the Polish master’s sound and style. The central ‘Gavotte,’…
In recent years, the musical public seems to have rediscovered the well-crafted and appealing music of romantic-era American composer Arthur Foote (1853-1937) – at least in terms of available recordings. But most of these releases have been devoted to his chamber and orchestral compositions. With practically no recordings devoted to Foote’s keyboard music, the time…
Arthur Foote: Complete Piano Music Kirsten Johnson, Piano “Kirsten Johnson’s loving mastery of this music and skillful, nuanced pianism are a delight.” – Classics Today The above comment is typical of critical response to the work of pianist Kirsten Johnson. Among her more unusual areas of specialty is the sadly neglected piano music of pioneering…
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