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Review Graveyard- Review FRANZ SCHUBERT - Late Works Vol. 1 - Steven Masi (Piano) - Digital Release Only - Released: March 2023 - Navona Records NV6505 Pianist Steven Masi delivers powerful, yet subtle, performances of some of Franz Schubert's final works on this 7...
Classical Music Sentinel - Review FRANZ SCHUBERT - Late Works Vol. 1 - Steven Masi (Piano) - Digital Release Only - Released: March 2023 - Navona Records NV6505 Drei Klavierstücke D 946, No. 1 in E-flat Minor Drei Klavierstücke D 946, No. 2 in E-flat Major Drei...
INFODAD.COM: Family-Focused Reviews (++++) BRAHMS AND BEYOND Brahms’ own later pieces, however, often have a succinctness that in no way reduces their communicative potential. In particular, his final four works for solo piano, Opp. 116-119, are intimate, personal,...
CLASSICAL Brahmsiana Music by and Inspired by Brahms Steven Masi piano (Navona Records) This unique release celebrates the highly introspective solo piano music of Johannes Brahms, as well as the ties that bind across the ages, with two new contemporary works inspired...
Brahmsiana: Music by and Inspired By Brahms Steven Masi, piano Navona Records 6260 Total Time: 78:26 Recording: ****/**** Performance: ****/**** Steven Masi has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. More recently he undertook a massive...
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos.1-32 ● Steven Masi (pn) ● ALBANY TROY1661 (10 CDs: 674:38) It’s been quite a season for Beethoven piano music enthusiasts. In the past several months, we’ve witnessed the completion of sonata cycles by Pavali Jumpannen and...
Fanfare Magazine Review of Pianist Steven Masi Jerry Dubins March 14, 2014 "I don’t know what life Steven Masi was living when this materialization of Beethoven’s A-Major Sonata came into being because I wasn’t there for any of his previous existences, but the one he...
Fanfare Magazine Review of Pianist Steven Masi Colin Clarke March 14, 2014 Volume One of Masi’s Beethoven cycle gets off to an auspicious start, with a “Pastoral” (No. 15) that does indeed sound as if it was, to paraphrase Masi himself, singing itself into existence...
New York Concert Review of Pianist Steven Masi February 18, 2014 Pianist Steven Masi gave a ferociously virtuosic performance of Justin Dello Joio’s Two Concert Etudes: Momentum and Farewell.
Audiophile Audition Review of Pianist Steven Masi Lee Passerella September 06, 2013 "Right from the start in the lovely “Pastoral” Sonata, it’s evident that Masi has thought a great deal about matters such as dynamics and phrasing. The shaping and shading of the...