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Aleksander Slobodyanik Plays Liszt; Sonata in B Minor, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (Columbia/Melodiya, $6.98). Slobodyanik ranks among the half a dozen best keyboard artists under 35. A galvanizing pianist whose appeal is not confined to showers of notes, he fuses virtuosity with a sense of poetry, but in this account of the Liszt B Minor Sonata, Slobodyanik shows a lapse of heart. The allegro passage work is more muscled than brilliant; where it should be bold it thumps...
Twelve Etudes, Opus 10, and Fantasia in F Minor, Opus 49; Twelve Etudes, Opus 25, and Scherzo No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Opus 39 (Aleksander Slobodyanik, Melodiya/Angel; 2 LPs; $5.98 each). Combining the right degree of bravura virtuosity with an elegant lyricism, Slobodyanik, 30, has total control of the giant tone poems. Especially impressive is the hand-crippling D-flat major etude of Opus...
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