One For The Piano Lover’s Collection

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If you love great piano works and superb musicianship, check out the various albums by the young Dutch pianist, Hannes Minnaar. This one, his debut album, features Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No.1, and Ravel’s Sonatine and Miroirs. You might be surprised to find these in one program, but Rachmaninoff and Ravel were very much contemporaries, born within two years of each other. All of the works were composed in the first decade of the 20^th century.

Rachmanioff’s first Sonata is his first large scale work for solo piano, and was not often performed. Many said it was too long and too difficult. Hannes Minnaar shows what a remarkable work it really is.

Ravel’s Miroirs shows Ravel really breaking away from classicism, and developing his own “sound”.

Great music, strong performances, beautifully recorded,– this is one that should be in any piano lover’s collection.

Oh— I just learned this: No wonder Rachmaninoff had such big hands (even my father, who saw him in concert, said so)! The man was 6 feet, 6 inches tall! (Ravel was only 5 feet, 2 inches) (Useless information, I know.)

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