Andrew Rangell: Beethoven Recital <BR> BRIDGE 9181American pianist Andrew Rangell is heard here in a program of five Beethoven sonatas, recorded at Boston's Gardner Museum in 2004. Choosing some of Beethoven's lesser performed sonatas, Rangell gives performances that display the pianist's highly personal approach with this music. Writing about Rangell's most recent New York recital, critic Charles Michener of The New York Observer wrote: "For me, the great discovery of the series has been Andrew

guitar and conductor

The disc begins with David Claman’s gone for foreign- a flashy

Elliott Carter

Arensky and Rimsky-Korsakov

“George Rothman gives awesomely assured performances of this difficult music…Alan Feinberg is beyond praise

Michael Oelbaum’s attention to voice leading

"play games with the ways that notes get put together

Rangell's fascinating reading of the famous Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue will certainly raise eyebrows

and when combined with Rosen’s artistry

Pastoral Drone

add to the significance of this release

Bach's Partita in D Minor