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Yuja Wang - The Verbier Festival Debut Recital 2008

Yuja Wang first came to international attention in 2007 when she stood in for Martha Argerich in Boston. A few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Daniel Matejča; Solveig Steinthorsdottir)

Although Hilary Hahn’s DG disc devoted to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Recording of the Month in the August...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Piano Recital (Su Yeon Kim)

Listening to the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition online, I chanced upon a terrific account of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata in progress,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Transcendental Studies (Yunchan Lim)

This is, unquestionably, a great piano recording. In this young pianist’s hands you will hear one of the finest-ever performances...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Consolations (Saskia Giorgini)

Listening to Saskia Giorgini’s fifth release on Pentatone, it’s easy to see how her career has inspired such enthusiasm. She...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023

CHOPIN Ballades Nos 2 &4. Scherzo No 4 (Anna Zassimova)

Having previously come across Anna Zassimova’s name only in connection with the Russian Georgy Catoire, whose works she has staunchly...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2023

BYRD My Ladye Nevells Booke (Pieter-Jan Belder)

There could hardly be a more fitting celebration of the Byrd anniversary than a complete recording of My Ladye Nevells...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Pablo Suarez Calero)

Competition in recordings of Bach’s solo violin music is strong and plentiful, and one might be forgiven for thinking Pablo...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023

Bach's Missing Pages (Sietze de Vries)

For Albert Schweitzer the Orgelbüchlein was ‘The Bible of Bach’. For Russell Stinson it is ‘simultaneously a compositional treatise, a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2023

CPE BACH Württemberg Sonatas (Keith Jarrett)

Keith Jarrett needs no introduction as an interpreter of JS Bach, but the affective world of Carl Philipp Emanuel is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

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