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Mary Dullea: Persian Autumn

How refreshing to have Iran and Iranians associated with something other than negative news. (Persian is actually an exonym –...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2021

CHOPIN Ballades. Nocturnes (Lara Melda)

The British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda first came to prominence as Lara Melda Ömerog˘lu when she won the BBC Young Musician...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021

Behzod Abduraimov: Debussy - Chopin - Mussorgsky

From Behzod Abduraimov’s recent Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody on the Russian composer’s own piano (Sony, 5/20), it was clear that this...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2021

BOWEN Fragments from Hans Andersen (Nicolas Namoradze)

I don’t know the genesis of this recording. Sometimes a label like Hyperion will find some interesting and/or unfamiliar repertoire...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 101, 109 & 111 (Nikolai Lugansky)

It has been a good few years since Nikolai Lugansky last released any Beethoven and he avoids the usual last...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021

JS BACH Little Books (Francesco Corti)

Harpsichordist, organist and conductor Francesco Corti is a native of Arezzo and now teaches at the Basel Schola Cantorum. Despite...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021

Songs of Comfort and Hope (Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott)

When Covid-19 hit the US hard in the first months of 2020 and lockdowns began to be imposed in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

Matt Haimovitz: Mon ami, mon amour

There’s an autumnal air to the music on this album, and not just because much of it was written in...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2021

The Berlin Album: Trio Sonatas From Berlin (Ensemble Diderot)

With London, Paris and Dresden already dispatched with style, Berlin is the next stop for Johannes Pramsohler’s plaudit-garnering Cities series....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2021

Avi Avital: Art of the Mandolin

Avi Avital, incomparable artist of and advocate for the mandolin, here presents a multifaceted portrait of an instrument ‘at once...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2021

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