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BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op1/2; Op70/1

Personal projection at the highest level predominates in Op 70 No 1. From the fortissimo up-rush, Allegro vivace e con...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

Vassily Sapellnikoff ; Xaver Scharwenka: ‘The Complete Recordings’

Sapellnikoff’s Tchaikovsky Concerto has appeared on CD before (notably Pearl GEMMCD9163) but not his complete extant recordings (the sides he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015

Mahan Esfahani: Time Present and Time Past

The fusion of old and new styles characterising harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani’s DG debut unfolds with a sense of continuity and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

Jiang Yi Lin: Masques

The concept of masks both real and abstract purportedly unifies the present recital’s diverse offerings; but the disc also adds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

XENAKIS Pléïades. Rebonds

The acclaimed percussion virtuoso Kuniko goes it alone, so to speak, in an impressive multitracked performance of Xenakis’s four-movement, 40-minute...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin

The stream of keyboard tributes to Rameau’s 250th anniversary last year continues with Bertrand Cuiller’s two-disc set for Mirare. His...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas K332, K282, K331

Wittily entitled ‘Keys to Mozart’, Daria van den Bercken’s disc offers a wide-ranging overview of the piano music. Sparsely pedalled,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

KANNO Light, Water, Rainbow

There’s a familiar scale with eight tones (C-D flat-E flat-E natural-F sharp-G-A-B flat) that Scriabin often used. Yoshihiro Kanno employs...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

GRIEG Lyric Pieces

Grieg may not be in the pantheon with the greatest but his freshness of invention continues to give his music...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015

CHOPIN 'Autour des Ballades’

Kotaro Fukuma is a masterly and refined young pianist who, after the virtuoso challenges of Albéniz (Iberia, 10/12) and Balakirev...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

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