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Ruth Slenczynska: My Life In Music

Last year I was lucky enough to review the wonderful DG Eloquence set of Ruth Slenczynska’s ‘Complete American Decca Recordings’...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022

Daniel Barenboim: Encores

Far be it from me to be a party pooper, but my first reaction on seeing the running order of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022

Rebecca Omordia: African Pianism

For her fascinating new Somm release, ‘African Pianism’, Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebecca Omordia has chosen music from three Nigerian composers, Ayo...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2022

WEINBERG Sonatas For Violin Solo (Gidon Kremer)

The unaccompanied sonatas for strings (four each for viola and cello, three for violin and one for double bass) might...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022

TABAKOVA; VLADIGEROV 'Slavic Roots' (Marina Staneva)

The young Bulgarian pianist Marina Staneva’s solo CD debut offers two major-length works by Pancho Vladigerov, whose ingenuous Romantic keyboard...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022

RAVEL The complete music for solo piano, Vol 1 (Oleg Marshev)

The old adage ‘let sleeping dogs lie’ applies to Maurice Ravel’s La parade, an over-extended music-hall pastiche that never should...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022

RACHMANINOV Piano Works (Jean-Paul Gasparian)

This is the first appearance in these pages of the French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (b1995, Paris) but I suspect he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14, 17 & 23 (Nikolai Lugansky)

This is the second volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Beethoven to have come my way and the ruggedness that coloured his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 2 (Linus Roth)

While not wishing to brand this comely trio of performances a ‘throwback’, it does bring in its train a key...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

Psappha: Commissions

It hardly seems three decades since Tim Williams founded the Manchester-based Psappha, its track record in terms of commissioning or...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022

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