HANS VON BÜLOW Mark Anderson piano Nimbus NI 5876 Rated as a conductor and pianist, Hans von Bülow (1830-1894) was a prolific composer, but his piano music, on this showing, is only for collectors who prefer to encounter music they don't know in familiar 19 C idioms. It seems far less significant than e.g. Felix Weingartner's. Anderson is rather heavy handed with the miniatures of Carnevale di Milano, and I was unable to listen to them through. Peter Grahame Woolf
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