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Alexandre Tharaud: Le Temps Dérobé

This engrossing film illustrates what a richly fulfilling life that of the international concert pianist can be – and also...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015

The Malcolm Smith Memorial Album

Malcolm Smith (1932-2011) was head of the Promotion and Hire Library at Boosey & Hawkes for many years and knew...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 03/2015

Karim Said: Echoes from an Empire

In ‘Echoes from an Empire’ (good title), the Jordanian-born London-trained pianist Karim Said (b1988) presents six engagingly diverse examples of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015

Kotaro Fukuma: Dumka

After a brilliant and refined recording success in Albéniz’s Iberia, Kotaro Fukuma moves to a more wintry clime. In his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015

Nadia Reisenberg: 110th Anniversary Tribute

Originally on Ivory Classics, this glorious two-CD album is now lavishly reissued to mark Nadia Reisenberg’s 110th anniversary. A voice...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015

STANFORD Organ Works Vol 2

Three tips of the hat for this one: first to Cathedral Music for sponsoring the CD and making available again...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015

SCHUMANN Carnaval. Davidsbündlertänze. Papillons

This is Boris Giltburg’s first disc since he signed to Naxos. His previous recordings on Orchid, of barnstorming repertoire from...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Fantasie

A number of highly cultivated pianists have been drawn to Mussorgsky’s Pictures over the past few years, among them Leif...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015

LISZT Piano Sonata

Writing in her personal and engaging notes, Angela Hewitt tells us that Liszt’s B minor Sonata is ‘quite simply one...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015

LISZT 'Venezia e Napoli’

Costantino Catena has performed the complete piano music of Liszt – a gargantuan task – and his present two-CD album...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015

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