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Francesco Corti: Frescobaldi and the South

‘Not without effort does one reach the end’, wrote Frescobaldi at the end of his Toccata IX, which is an...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2023

Yaara Tal: 1923

On this revelatory release, Yaara Tal – inspired by Tobias Bleek’s In the Frenzy of the Twenties – 1923: Music...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2023

Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)

With the exception of Claudio Arrau, Shura Cherkassky is the only pianist this writer knows of whose recording career spanned...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023

HOVHANESS Mountain Fantasies for Piano (Haskell Small)

Alan Hovhaness’s music has been appallingly neglected since his death in the year 2000. In many ways he was ahead...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2023

CHIHARA Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra

It may come as a surprise that a composer as experienced as Paul Chihara (b1938) has not written more for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

Cordelia Williams: Cascade

It seems only yesterday that I heard Cordelia Williams at the University of Sheffield in a selection of Vingt Regards,...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2023

Alice Sara Ott: Beethoven

Whatever the rationale behind Alice Sara Ott’s hybrid programme, her Beethoven is enlivened by some fascinating interpretative touches. She greets...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 2 (Ewa Pobłocka)

The salient qualities that I praised in Ewa Pobłocka’s recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 carry over to Book...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2023

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Oliver Schnyder)

This is a bold choice for Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder’s first foray into Bach on record. How do you like...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2023

‘Stained Glass’

The ‘second’ violin sonatas of Ravel and Prokofiev are unusual bedfellows on disc – Viktoria Mullova paired them early in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2023

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