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HOFMANN Piano Works

Josef Hofmann was one of the very greatest pianists of the so-called Golden Age. He was also an inventor (when...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015

DUKAS Works for Piano

Dukas’s single Piano Sonata remains among the most formidable peaks of the repertoire, a defiant assault on what is generally...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015

COKE Preludes Opp 33 & 34. Variations

Born into an affluent Derbyshire family with strong links to the military and ties stretching all the way back to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015

Wilde plays Chopin Vol 3

Here once more, on his third Chopin recording for Delphian, David Wilde presents a determined assault on traditional wisdom, on...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015

BLISS Piano Music Vol 2

The second volume in Mark Bebbington’s welcome and conspicuously classy survey of Bliss’s complete piano output contains one premiere recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015

William Hamilton Bird: The Oriental Miscellany

Given the slight, four-movement sonata that rounds off this fascinating disc, the music of William Hamilton Bird wouldn’t ordinarily merit...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2015

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations

First the positives. In Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Nick Van Bloss’s supple precision brings out the shifting accents of Var 2’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015

BARTÓK; DEBUSSY; PROKOFIEV Études

For his second recording of Debussy’s 12 Etudes (the first was for Arabesque, 2/90), Garrick Ohlsson chooses the iconoclastic blaze...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015

Bach in Montecassino

Presenting Bach’s organ music in fresh pastures is no easy feat but the programming alchemy here is highly compelling. The...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is faithful to the original and presents few radical changes. And so I can...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015

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