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Review of SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze. Variations. Novelette

SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze. Variations. Novelette

This is the third of Imogen Cooper’s discs centred around Schumann for Chandos and the first wholly devoted to Robert....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015

Review of SCHUBERT Impromptus. Piano Pieces. Hüttenbrenner Variations

SCHUBERT Impromptus. Piano Pieces. Hüttenbrenner Variations

Although he partnered Paul Lewis on a disc of Schubert’s duets on Hyperion (12/10), it’s taken some time for Steven...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015

Review of ROGER-DUCASSE Complete Piano Music

ROGER-DUCASSE Complete Piano Music

Martin Jones’s three-CD album of Roger-Ducasse’s complete piano music is a bewildering stimulation for jaded palates. Bewildering because Roger-Ducasse’s elusive...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

Review of RACHMANINOV Compete Preludes

RACHMANINOV Compete Preludes

A first listen to 25 year old Lukas Geniušas’s performance of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes left me enormously impressed. A second...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

Review of PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 2 SCHUBERT Impromptus

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 2 SCHUBERT Impromptus

Until now, the Georgian pianist Elisso Bolkvadze has recorded primarily for the Sony Classical Infinity Digital and Cascavelle labels. On...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2015

Review of SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 3 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 3 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Winner of international prizes and invariably a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Alessio Bax now turns to the sharply opposed worlds of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

Review of GOTTSCHALK A Night in the Tropics

GOTTSCHALK A Night in the Tropics

Gottschalk is a composer you have to cherry-pick, and on paper this is an attractively varied programme mixing the sentimental,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

Review of CHOPIN 4 Scherzos TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons

CHOPIN 4 Scherzos TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons

What an oddly balanced programme: four of Chopin’s most familiar masterpieces played in sequence (not composed as a suite and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

Review of BRAHMS Solo Piano Works

BRAHMS Solo Piano Works

In the penultimate volume of his Chandos Brahms cycle, Barry Douglas continues to create provocative playlists by liberating short pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015

Review of BRAHMS Paganini Variations LISZT Mephisto Waltz

BRAHMS Paganini Variations LISZT Mephisto Waltz

With the Liszt Sonata and now Brahms’s Paganini Variations, to say nothing of the Saint-Saëns-Liszt-Horowitz Danse macabre coupling, Alexander Gavrylyuk...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

 

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