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RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit. Sonatine. Jeux d'eau

Recalling in particular Stefan Vladar’s fine early recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Sony, 4/92), I turned to the radically different...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015

MENDELSSOHN; F HENSEL Songs Without Words

Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words may have suffered from their association with the Victorian parlour (just as his oratorios became indelibly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

SCRIABIN; JANÁČEK Sonatas and Poems

Stephen Hough’s piano-playing always seems informed by a composer’s instincts and sensibilities, attributes immediately discernible in his new recording combining...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015

FERNEYHOUGH Complete Piano Works

Nicolas Hodges stares into the middle distance, his fingers perched over the keyboard, his pupils fully dilated: cover art that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015

COUPERIN Pieces

This disc is as interesting for the instrument as for Louis Couperin’s music. Colin Booth, exceptionally, is both a fine...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2015

CHOPIN Complete Preludes

Comparisons may be invidious, but they seem inescapable for two new sets of Chopin Preludes by Dong-Hyek Lim and Yundi....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012

The reverence with which some cellists choose to treat Bach’s Cello Suites can produce results that disappear in opposite directions:...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Preludes and Fugues

This unusual disc takes as its starting point those succinct keyboard pieces, both stand-alone and developed later in collections (notably...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

‘You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practise, practise, practise. And then, when you finally get up there on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015

Songs from the Arc of Life

What is the most challenging repertoire for any artist to commit to disc? Bach’s Cello Suites, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

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