...is featured on a new 2-CD set of piano sonatas by Rathaus and Shostakovich, of which only the former's No.1 is suitable for discussion here. If I were to characterise it, I'd say it sits alongside later Scriabin, downstream from Liszt in its grandiloquence.
Excerpts can be found here:
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This'll be my instrumental discovery of 2020 without a doubt. The performance by the Russian-born French pianist Vladimir Stoupel is stupefying in its brilliance.