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SORABJI 100 Transcendental Studies 84-100 (Fredrik Ullén)

As a teenager in the early 1970s I became obsessed by rumours about a reclusive misanthrope who had composed the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2021

Zlata Chochieva: (re)creations

‘It is about creating something again, about reinventing and breathing life into masterpieces we know from the past.’ Thus Zlata...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021

Mahani Teave: Rapa Nui Odyssey

Occasionally a recording appears with a backstory so extraordinary that its intrinsic musical merit risks being overshadowed. The 1946 Columbia...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2021

NØRGÅRD; RUDERS Works for Solo Cello (Wilhelmina Smith)

Wilhelmina Smith moves from the Finland of Salonen and Saariaho (5/19) to the Denmark of Nørgård and Ruders, two composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2021

LIGETI Etudes (Danny Driver)

It’s amazing yet not surprising how quickly Ligeti’s piano Études entered the international repertoire, with recordings by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2021

JANÁČEK On An Overgrown Path. Piano Sonata. In the Mists (Lars Vogt)

Lars Vogt is an artist who likes to travel unexpected paths and behind every recording there’s always a sense that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas, Vol 9 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

I am tempted to set my morning alarm to go off with Bavouzet’s Haydn C major Sonata (HobXVI:1) – it’s...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2021

CHOPIN Ballades & Impromptus (Anna Vinnitskaya)

In much-recorded pieces such as these, you really have to get everything right to bear comparison with earlier versions. The...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021

JS BACH Leipzig Chorales. Schübler Chorales. Canonic Variations

For the third volume in his traversal of Bach’s organ works, James Johnstone presents a programme that could be said...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2021

ALKAN Paraphrases, Marches & Symphonie For Solo Piano (Mark Viner)

Mark Viner’s fourth volume in his complete Alkan odyssey is artfully conceived and astutely ordered. He opens with the only...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021

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