Clifford Curzon was much revered as a chamber-music performer, and rightly so, but his solo discography is relatively small. The vast majority of his solo recordings were made for the Decca label and run a wide gamut in quality, regrettably tending toward vapidity. He does tend to get things off the ground far more in his live performances (mostly recorded for the BBC at various venues in England), though these recordings are few and far between.  [Continue reading . . .]