Liberace (pronounced Liber-ah-chee) is a piano player who dropped his given names because “Paderewski did not achieve worldwide fame until after he dropped his.”* The trick took: at 33, Milwaukee-born ...
Debussy, Images, Preludes II performed by pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin (Hyperion). Let’s not be flippant here. So let’s not call this wonderful disc “Debussy’s Less Popular Piano Music.” After all, ...