"Bamboula! (Centaur) is a selection of the delightful piano music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America's first international virtuoso/composer; Lewin has the chops and the charm for these pieces." [Gottschalk on Centaur] Richard Dyer, Boston Globe (Dec. 2002)

"The recording is outstanding from start to finish; and Lewin's playing is fresh and alive, blazing with energy and rhythmic precision. It is musically conceived with beautifully poised tempos that convey a sense of the dance idiom...." [Gottschalk on Centaur] Leonne Lewis, Clavier Magazine (Jan. 2003)

"...liberating and dazzling music-making, live and on the wing.... Lewin's playing positively brims over with high spirits." [Scarlatti on Naxos] Bryce Morrison, Gramophone (Feb. 2000)

 

Discography

 

Domenico Scarlatti - 19 Keyboard Sonatas; Naxos 8.553771

Charles Tomlinson Griffes - Complete Piano Music

     Vol. 1  Naxos American Classics (8.559023 ) (includes Piano Sonata, Roman Sketches, etc.)

     Vol. 2  Naxos American Classics (8.559046)   (includes Pleasure-Dome of Kubla-Khan, etc.)

Bamboula! Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Centaur Records CRC2549

A Russian Piano Recital; Music of Scriabin Balakirev and Glazunov; Centaur Records CRC2134

Michael Lewin plays Liszt
Centaur Records CRC2066

William Bolcom: The 4 Violin Sonatas and Graceful Ghost Rag, with Irina Muresanu. Centaur 2910

Upcoming 2009 release -  “If I Were A Bird”-  Solo piano music inspired by birds, by composers including Grieg, Schumann, Ravel, Rameau, Daquin, Josef Hofmann, Griffes, Messiaen, Stavinsky, Glinka, Liszt, Henselt, Saint-Säens, Leschetitzky and others.

 
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