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SIMAKU 'Solo'

When Thomas Simaku, born in Albania, moved to the UK in 1991, he discovered the 20th-century avant-garde tradition. Thereafter, his...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW23

Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid (Sergei Kvitko)

Pianist Sergei Kvitko’s booklet notes discuss at great length the conception and evolution of this all-Schubert programme centred around the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

PARRY Piano Music (Richard Deering)

Parry’s piano music has received scant attention over the past 50 years. Recordings by John Parry (Pearl, 7/78 – nla)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW23

LISZT Études d’exécution transcendante (Haochen Zhang)

Since sharing the Gold Medal at the Cliburn Competition in 2009, Haochen Zhang has accumulated a choice discography – but...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt, Vol Two: Salon and Stage

Listening to Liszt’s take on Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture – creative in the most authentic sense – is to recall Ronald...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW23

FRANCK Piano Works (Ingmar Lazar)

Interest in Franck’s solo piano music has focused on the Prélude, aria et final and the Prélude, choral et fugue....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

COUPERIN Complete Harpsichord Music (Massimo Berghella)

With this recording of the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin, we can safely retire the usual introduction to the...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW23

JS BACH Organ Works, Vol 4 (Masaaki Suzuki)

For the English organist and composer Percy Whitlock, most of life’s troubles could easily be countered by ‘a long walk...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW23

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Víkingur Ólafsson)

Víkingur Ólafsson plays the opening Aria of the Goldberg Variations as a straightforward sarabande, giving no hint of his brisk...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites (Florian Berner)

The performance of Bach’s Cello Suites is often surrounded by subtexts that prepare the way for the listening experience, whether...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23

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