Leonard Shure in Concert at Jordan Hall <BR> BRIDGE 9374A/BLeonard Shure (1910 1995) was a superb musician, an important pianist, and an uncompromising and influential teacher. His legacy as a performer lies in a small but significant number of commercial recordings. This release augments that legacy with live performances recorded during his faculty recitals in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall late in his life. Shure recorded the Brahms Phantasien on 78s for Vox in the mid 1940s, but these performances

bringing many of the insights of the historical performance movement: transparent textures

balance perfect

the interspersed trills

The work's dedicatee

who premiered the sonata in 1914

There’s never a dull moment here

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He creates a nice sense of anticipation in the enigmatic opening

Open Strings

Poul Ruders: Psalmodies (1989)

Fred Hersch: A Wish

Sonata in E-flat