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Cyril Smith: Complete Solo Recordings

As APR’s note says, we tend to remember Cyril Smith (1909 74) as the pianist who overcame a stroke in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2021

YSAŸE Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op 27 (Jack Liebeck)

Yet another vividly colour-coded set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, music that seems to have sidled up alongside Bartók’s late...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

LUTYENS Piano Works, Vol 1 (Martin Jones)

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 83) is not noted for her piano music but wrote for the instrument throughout her career, and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, Suisse (Charles Owen)

For his latest Avie release, British pianist Charles Owen has chosen the nine pieces comprising Liszt’s 1855 Swiss Année, delivering...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 20, 34, 51 & 52 (Paul Lewis)

Paul Lewis’s second volume of Haydn sonatas features, like the first (which I reviewed in 5/18), four strikingly different characters....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021

DUTILLEUX Piano Works (Jean-Pierre Armengaud)

The Dutilleux discography having grown out of all proportion to his output says much for the esteem in which his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021

CHOPIN Four Scherzos; Etudes, Op 25 (Beatrice Rana)

In March 2019 Beatrice Rana had the New York press in raptures with her Carnegie Hall Chopin. I can see...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2021

Anna Fedorova: Shaping Chopin

Chopin indicates his Op 18 as a Grande valse brillante, yet Anna Fedorova’s fussy detailing and unsettled basic pulse make...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

BOLCOM; CHOPIN 'Vers Le Silence' (Ran Dank)

A long list of international competition victories and performances grace the 39-year-old Israeli-born, American-based pianist Ran Dank’s résumé, not to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH Complete English Suites (Sophie Yates)

Sophie Yates is an artist who wears her immense erudition lightly. Listening to her, one encounters the composer’s voice, clothed...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

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