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Matthias Schorn: Music for Clarinet Solo

Back in 1976, Helmut Lachenmann composed his Accanto – a typically subversive and uncompromising critique of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014

Tom Poster: In Dance and Song

This lovingly chosen recital – striking in both choice and performance – celebrates dance and song, key aspects of music...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

SCHUMANN Études symphoniques. Faschingsschwank aus Wien

Leon McCawley launches his all Schumann disc in high spirits with Faschingsschwank aus Wien. It’s the faster movements that come...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

SCHUBERT Impromptus D899. Sonata D960

Oh dear. Listening to the opening of the C minor Impromptu, you do wish that Rudolf Buchbinder would leave it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014

RAVEL Valse nobles SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas Nos 4 & 5

Pairing Ravel and Scriabin is an intriguing idea – two composers with their own unique harmonic language (the Scriabin works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

RACHMANINOV Preludes and Transcriptions

This disc, devoted to Rachmaninov, remembers Colin Horsley, a pianist of the utmost distinction. A New Zealander by birth, he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

LUTOSŁAWSKI Complete Works for Solo Piano

Just one concerto, plus the wonderful Paganini Variations for two pianos and the hour’s worth of solo pieces gathered on...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014

EBEN Job for Organ

Petr Eben’s cycle Job is without question one of the outstanding organ masterpieces of the 20th century. While the recording...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2014

DEBUSSY Preludes. Arabesques. Estampes

Nino Gvetadze’s name is new to me. I missed her previous three solo CDs of Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Liszt but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 5

Volume 5 of five two-CD sets completes Christian Leotta’s cycle of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas. He will shortly have played...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

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