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Can Çakmur: Without Borders

Pianophiles will probably remember Can Çakmur’s exquisite Schubert-Liszt Schwanengesang along with the four Valses oubliées from just a couple of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022

This is America: An Anthology 2020-21 (Johnny Gandelsman)

This is potentially one of the important recordings of our time. Violinist Johnny Gandelsman presents 24 new works by American...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2022

Oda Voltersvik: Neo

The young Norwegian pianist Oda Voltersvik has harnessed together four effectively contrasted representatives of the 20th-century Russian piano tradition. Admittedly...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2022

Bor Zuljan: Il liuto del principe

Is Bor Zuljan tackling yet another melancholic genius? Almost. Where the Slovenian lutenist’s debut solo recording was devoted exclusively to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2022

L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (Céline Frisch)

Céline Frisch explores the work of Couperin’s contemporaries and successors in this amusing programme, ‘L’aimable’, constructed around the conceit of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2022

VINE Complete Piano Sonatas (Xiaoya Liu)

The ‘world premiere’ description on this album’s cover is slightly deceiving. Carl Vine’s four piano sonatas do indeed appear together...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, D959 & D960 (Dong Hyek Lim)

Dong Hyek Lim’s Schubert is pianistically proficient, if not consistently enlivening from a musical standpoint. In the A major opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

HAHN Poèmes & Valses (Pavel Kolesnikov)

Writing to one of his contemporary champions, the Venezuelan-born Frenchman Reynaldo Hahn admitted that he valued the other arts as...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2022

GRIEG Lyric Pieces, Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)

In this first of what will apparently be two volumes of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, Peter Donohoe digs deep into this...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022

DOWLAND 'Lessons' (Jonas Nordberg)

Jonas Nordberg writes in a brief booklet note of ‘the rich mix of melancholy, joy and beauty’ that is John...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2022

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