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Tianxu An: Tchaikovsky - Rachmaninov - Prokofiev

You might have heard of the Chinese pianist Tianxu An before, not because of his piano-playing but because of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin

Ivo Pogorelich turns to Chopin for his second Sony solo recital, symbolising a return to the scene of his youthful...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2022

BYRD Keyboard Music (Friederike Chylek)

With this new collection of works by William Byrd, harpsichordist Friederike Chylek returns to a composer who has been a...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2022

Sergey Tanin Plays…Brahms, Schubert-Liszt & Prokofiev

Sergey Tanin was born in 1995. He is a graduate of the Bosikov High School of Music (in the far-east...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

BEACH Complete Works For Piano Duo (Genova Dimitrov Duo)

‘War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography’ – a quote attributed to the satirist Ambrose Bierce. Which is why...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (Leonidas Kavakos)

Booklet notes by Tully Potter include what at first seems to be a detailed survey of the recorded history of...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

BACEWICZ Piano Works (Peter Jablonski)

Listening to Peter Jablonski’s new Ondine album, pianists and lovers of piano music may be prompted to ask: ‘Where has...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2022

ABEL; JS BACH 'Solo Bach-Abel' (Lucile Boulanger)

Bags of invention have gone into this album. Inspired by the ‘arrangement idiom’ of the Baroque, Lucile Boulanger has created...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

Beethoven, Mozart, Seabourne & Holloway: Horn Quintets

There cannot be much repertoire for his instrument that Ondřej Vrabec has not yet tackled, which makes his collection of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022

Horn and Piano: A Cor Basse Recital

'Punto blows magnifique’, enthused Mozart to his father from Mannheim in 1778. At the end of the century the Bohemian...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022

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