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MCCABE Le poisson magique

John McCabe was noted, of course, as a composer-pianist, in the former role notably for piano and orchestral works. But...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

LEGUIZAMÓN El Cuchi Bien Temperado

The title of Pablo Márquez’s latest release is intriguing – ‘The Well-Tempered Pig’ – and requires explanation. ‘Cuchi’ was the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015

KURTÁG Játékok

György Kurtág’s Játékok (‘Games’) is one of the more remarkable musical projects to emerge in the post-war era. Begun in...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

HASSE Sonatas from the Italian Manuscripts

Known for his immense and influential operatic and sacred output, Johann Adolf Hasse wrote relatively little for solo keyboard. All...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

GLASS Mad Rush. Metamorphoses I-V

'Yet another disc of Glass piano music,’ I hear you say; but before you start scanning the other columns on...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2015

CHOPIN Mazurkas, Ecossaises and Waltzes

Another Chopin recital, a recording debut, and another gifted young Pole. Marek Bracha, fresh from his studies in Warsaw and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Evangélion

Alessandro Marangoni follows his disc of the two piano concertos (9/12) with a first complete recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Evangélion (‘The...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

BRAHMS Solo Piano Works Vol 4

Volume 4 in Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle-in-progress mixes and matches short pieces culled from various opus number groups with three...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4

The Beethoven sonata cycle that Jonathan Biss launched on Avie now reaches its halfway mark via Meyer Media with Vol...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

ALKAN Chanson de la folle au bord de la mer

Vol 4 of Vincenzo Maltempo’s Alkan consists of works which he considers better suited to his 1899 Erard instrument than...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

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