Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 with Bruce Liu & Elgar Enigma Variations

It would be unrealistic to expect a piano concerto written by a budding young virtuoso not out of his teens to display a command of the symphonic style of concerto writing that we have come to recognize in the earlier works of Mozart and Beethoven. Not only was such a style inimical to Chopin’s orig...

The Enigma Variations remains, justifiably, Elgar’s best-known work. In its invention, its range of expression, its play of light and dark between movements and keys, the craftsmanship of its links between movements, its exploiting of the various possibilities of the orchestra, its melodic fertility...