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JS Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation (Julien Libeer)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, with all its minor-key preludes...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2022

SCRIABIN Mazurkas (Andrey Gugnin)

Unlike his more numerous Preludes and less numerous Études, Scriabin’s Mazurkas are not spread evenly across his career, being concentrated...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2022

Michael Korstick plays The Essential Scarlatti

A great deal of care has gone into the creation of this two-disc Scarlatti recital. That’s evident from the detailed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (Valentina Lisitsa)

You will remember Valentina Lisitsa as the Ukrainian pianist who broke the mould by establishing an international career courtesy of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022

MEHMARI; VALE 'Brazilian Landscapes' (Mariama Alcântara)

Fans of Jascha Heifetz will have no trouble recognising Flausino Vale’s ‘Ao Pé da Fogueira’, the 15th of his Characteristic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022

FELDMAN Late works for piano (Alfonso Gómez)

Feldman’s single-movement late works are monumental in length, culminating in the six hour-long Second String Quartet (find a comfortable seat...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 31 (Andreas Haefliger)

At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022

BARJANSKY Piano Music, Vol 2 (Julia Severus)

Julia Severus introduced Adolf Barjansky (1851-1900) to these pages in September 2020 with her first volume of premiere recordings. That...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 1 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Technically, this album is difficult to fault. Frank Peter Zimmermann’s playing of the Preludio of Bach’s Partita No 3 in...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2022

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Jean Rondeau)

Jean Rondeau’s Goldberg Variations clocks in at 107 minutes, observing all the repeats, including those in the Aria da capo....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022

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