George Walker: Five Piano Sonatas <br> Steven Beck, piano <br> BRIDGE 9554George Walker's five piano sonatas chart a lifetime of stylistic change and development. Walker, a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, was also a virtuoso pianist, and these new recordings by American pianist Steven Beck sizzle with musicality and keyboard fireworks. Reviews: ANEARFUL: Best of the Year Classical 2022 "With playing that's slashing and sensitive by turns, Beck's recital accentuates the through lines in a protean artistic life." The New

"All the performances seem authoritative

Sarah Wolfson

live from Carnegie Hall

the playing top notch

Performed by Speculum Musicae

Night Thoughts for Piano (1972)

Yehudi Wyner won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his piano concerto

with Rangell's intensely imagined reading providing a world of variety of articulation

The sheer sound of this piece is utterly beguiling

an Aladdin’s cave of performances of such breathtaking pianistic finesse that they are able to achieve an expressive and imaginative freedom known to very few pianists

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“There’s no question that this release lovingly revives a key figure in popular American music