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MESSIAEN Vingt Regards Sur l'Enfant-Jesus (Kristoffer Hyldig)

Vingt Regards will be 80 next year, and it remains one of the most daunting edifices of solo piano music....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2023

MEDTNER Piano Sonatas (Dina Parakhina)

I first became aware of the Russian-born UK-based pianist Dina Parakhina through chamber music collaborations with her violinist husband Yuri...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2023

LIGETI Complete Études (Han Chen)

Han Chen first appeared on my reviewer radar when he won the China International Piano Competition back in 2013, not...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2023

CHOPIN Ballades & Scherzi (Marianna Shirinyan)

This album is my introduction to the Armenian-Danish pianist Marianna Shirinyan (b1978), though an album pairing Kuhlau and Beethoven album...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Partita BWV827. French Suites Bwv 813, 814 & 816 (Christian Zacharias)

For someone who 10 years ago in an interview for The Independent claimed that Bach was ‘too boring’, a new...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2023

JS BACH Notebooks for Anna Magdalena (Mahan Esfahani)

Mahan Esfahani continues his survey of Bach, digging now into the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach and their fascinating miscellany...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2023

CPE BACH Fantasias (Aapo Häkkinen)

A sequence of fantasias by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach illustrates both his individuality and his pivotal position between generations: that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2023

The sun is free to flow with the sea

Onyx Brass’s ‘Festmusik’ album (Chandos, 6/21) was an intriguing recital of German works prompted by a collection of letters bequeathed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023

Phantasy in Blue

If you have ever wondered what four saxophones, a piano and a cello sound like, here’s your answer. It’s not...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

1919: CODA - Janáček, Boulanger, Debussy, Elgar

Five years ago the Tate in London staged ‘Aftermath’, an exhibition of European art after the First World War. The...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2023

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