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Avec Esprit: Gouvy, Mélan-Guéroult, Saint-Saens, Ysaye

Before I begin, I must declare an interest: I am a fully paid-up member of the Tal & Groethuysen fan...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

RUBINSTEIN Preludes and Études (Martin Cousin)

‘Like many fecund composers,’ wrote Albert Lockwood in 1940, ‘[Anton Rubinstein] offers two kinds of failures. First, the pieces which...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

MOZART; BIZET Don Giovanni (Cyprien Katsaris)

Hands up! Who knew that Georges Bizet had made a piano solo arrangement of Mozart’s Don Giovanni? Thought so. My...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words, Vol 2 (Jacopo Salvatori)

Pianists who record Mendelssohn’s complete Songs without Words usually present them in order by opus number. For his second and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023

MATTHEW-WALKER A Bad Night in Los Angeles

Well known as author, publisher and one-time A&R representative, Robert Matthew-Walker (b1939) has also amassed a sizeable output. A 2016...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023

Seong-Jin Cho: The Handel Project

Seong-Jin Cho’s latest project shows all the consideration and respect for the music that we’ve come to expect from this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023

HADJIDAKIS Paper Moon (Elena Papandreou)

This is a beautiful collection of guitar arrangements of songs by Manos Hadjidakis, one of Greece’s most famous tragoudistes. The...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023

CHOPIN; FAURÉ Impromptus (Ismaël Margain)

I was excited to hear this programme, not least because the Fauré Impromptus get out far less often than they...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023

CHASINS Complete Music For Piano Solo (Margarita Glebov)

Leopold Godowsky once bumped into the young Abram Chasins. ‘Is it true’, he asked, ‘that your Rush Hour in Hong...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Variations, Vol 1 (Cédric Tiberghien)

Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023

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