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    Berg: Sonata
    Brahms: Paganini Variations I+II
    Beethoven: 32 Variations c-minor
    Bach: 3rd English Suite   
    (2009)

   
"One of the best played, best interpreted, best programmed recitals of piano music of the year.
Margulis' previous disc of piano transcriptions showed that he has a tremendous technique, a big but nuanced tone, and a virtuoso's charisma. While that program was a potpourri of terrifically difficult transcriptions, this repertoire is tightly focused on the hardest of hardcore Austro-Germanic piano music -- Bach's G minor English Suite, Beethoven's C minor Variations, Brahms' Paganini Variations, and Berg's Sonata -- cunningly programmed in reverse chronological order. … In every work, the Russian-born, German-raised, and American-trained pianist turns in readings of immense power and intensity, plumbing Bach's spiritual depths, Beethoven's muscular drama, Brahms' bracing dynamism, and Berg's passionate emotions, yet maintaining his own identity as an interpreter ...”
(All Music Guide)


    The Symphonic Steinway (2007)
    Limited Special Edition CD Released         by Steinway & Sons, Germany.

    Other artists featured on the CD               include Yefim Bronfman, Arcadi                 Volodos, Evgeny Kissin, Michael                 Pletnev, Emanuel Ax, and
    Martha Argerich.



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     Piano Transcriptions
    Bach, Gluck, Schubert, Wagner, 
    Caplet, (2006)

     
     
     "To take but one example, it’s a
      famously formidable test for a solo
      singer to differentiate the four
      characters represented in the    
      narrative text of Schubert’s
      Erlkönig—much less for a solo
      pianist in the Liszt transcription.
      It’s hard to imagine this challenge
      being brought off more
      successfully than it is here.
      ... Recommended!"
      (Fanfare Magazine)

     “Margulis' ability to structure the Bach  
     Chaconne, to build momentum and at the
     right moment to gently abate … not since
     Horowitz’s old RCA recording have I
     encountered a performance of
     Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre that so
     grippingly leaps from the stage, as here
     in Jura Margulis’ own transcription.” 
     (KlassikHeute)

     Margulis “cannot be praised enough.”  
     (Klassic.com)
   
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    Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Medtner,
    Stravinsky (2003)

     

     Margulis' powerful spotlighting turns
     this Sonate (Prokoffievs Siebte) into a
     piece of ongoing screaming and hesi-
     tation that brings light into the depths
     of the human soul.
    (PianoNews)

"The opening of the CD, the  Corelli-Variationen by Rachmaninoff are exemplary subdle and transparent. Overall one of the most remarkable piano CDs of the last months.
(FonoForum)
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    Schumann, Liszt, Debussy  (2000)

       

    "Controlled Obsession"
    (Fono Forum)

     The CD was chosen by Fono Forum as
     a „reference recording“ and included
     to The 1000 Most Important CDs of
     2001.
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    Live on the Horowitz Steinway
    (1999)

   

    „absolute authority“ (Fono Forum)

    „I can’t tell you what a great pleasure it
    is for me to listen to your excellent  
    playing on Horowitz 314 503. What a
    wonderful program too. When I listen to
    all those pieces Vladimir Horowitz played
    I see him still sitting at this his beloved
    Steinway.“
    (Franz Mohr, legendary piano tuner of
    V. Horovitz)
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    Maurice Ravel, Serge Prokofiev
    (1998)

    "... this interpretation puts Jura
    Margulis in the company of the greatest
    performers of the music of Ravel and
    Prokofiev."
    (Universitätsblätter)
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    Schumann, Chopin, Rachmaninov,
    Liszt, Saint-Saéns, Moszkowsky
    (1991)

    „With all the power and all the                     distinctive temperament, Margulis               always retains control and                           penetrates the compositions with               an impressive clarity.“
    (Freiburger Universitätsblätter)