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Wanda Landowska: The Complete Piano Recordings

APR’s three-disc album of Wanda Landowska the pianist, rather than Landowska the iconic harpsichordist, throws down the gauntlet at present-day...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014

SCHUMANN Variations and Fantasiestücke

Andreas Staier continues his exploration of Schumann in the company of a richly coloured, eloquent instrument by Erard, which dates...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas

This recital is all about contrasts: at its centre, that most unpianistic of pieces – the Wanderer Fantasy – bookended...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas

In the main, Igor Kamenz’s Scarlatti recital serves up unsatisfying interpretations of favourite pieces. Notice the purposeless elongations at phrase...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 5 & 6.

Though the track list has it as Op 38, the Fifth Sonata should really be listed as Op 135, the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 3-5, 10 & 13

No angularities or vertically oriented sounds here. Instead, the capacity of the modern piano for a horizontally sustained line is...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2014

MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Perhaps more than most of Mendelssohn’s output, the Songs Without Words have contributed to the saccharine image that history has...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

Bianconi plays Chopin

Philippe Bianconi has not enjoyed an exactly high-profile career since winning the silver medal at the Seventh Van Cliburn International...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

BRIAN Complete Piano Music

Although this is the second CD issue devoted to Havergal Brian’s complete piano music, it was the first to be...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 2. Variations. 3 Intermezzi

Brahms’s F sharp minor Sonata is at the heart of Jonathan Plowright’s second volume of the composer’s complete piano works....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014

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