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Guiomar Novaes: The complete published 78-rpm recordings

‘Guiomar Novaes: The Complete Published 78rpm Recordings’ consists largely of those short-but-sweet encore pieces that had her adoring audiences (notably...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

CHOPIN Preludes SCHUBERT Klavierstücke PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 7

Four years after winning the 2010 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw – the first woman to do so since Martha...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

SCULTHORPE Complete Works for Solo Piano

The last time I saw Peter Sculthorpe, who died in August aged 85, was two years ago when I visited...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2015

SCHUMANN Piano Sonata No 3. 3 Romances. Humoreske

Winner of the prestigious Premio Venezia prize, Vincenzo Maltempo rides high among many young and gifted Italian pianists. And after...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

SCHUMANN Kreisleriana. Symphonic Studies

Nelson Goerner presents some of Schumann’s wildest children in this finely recorded recital, beginning with the mighty Etudes symphoniques. Beauty...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Moments Musicaux. Piano Sonata No 20

Shai Wosner muses in his booklet essay on the notion of Schubert and time, observing that often the composer’s short...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Valses nobles. Valses sentimentales

Initial enthusiasm for a record largely devoted to Schubert dances is easily dampened if the performances are insufficiently vital, affectionate...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

RACHMANINOV Moments Musicaux. Etudes-Tableaux Op 39

The 1990 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition ranges far and wide and, having recently introduced us to the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 38, 39, 47 & 59

Christa Landon’s numbering 1 to 62 is followed. But her 1960s edition was superseded in 2009 when Wiener Urtext published...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2015

GODOWSKY Piano Music Vol 12

The end is in sight: 12 down, three to go. Scherbakov’s Herculean task of recording all of Leopold Godowsky’s music...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

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