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Magda Tagliaferro: The complete 78-rpm solo and concerto recordings

I heard Magda Tagliaferro only once: she played at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park at the conclusion of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (Boris Bloch)

Here is a curious curate’s egg. The recording is based on the concert Boris Bloch gave on the occasion of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2020

SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 5 (Barry Douglas)

Reviewers often resort to the cliché ‘granitic’ when describing an interpretation that pursues a direct, unswerving course and conveys an...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

Ondřej Vrabec: British Music for Horn

Peter Seabourne (b1960) studied with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, and an entire disc of music...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020

HAYDN Eight Early Sonatas (Tuija Hakkila)

The music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his treatise on keyboard-playing were essential to Haydn’s musical education, and one...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2020

CRUMB Metamorphoses, Book I (Marcantonio Barone)

George Crumb’s 1972/73 Makrokosmos Books 1 and 2 made innovative use of amplification and extended piano techniques both inside and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 1-3 (Boris Giltburg)

My introduction to Boris Giltburg was in November 2014, when he appeared with the Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop playing...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020

Alexandre Kantorow: Bartók, Brahms, Liszt

By June 2019 when, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the Tchaikovsky...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Pavel Kolesnikov)

In Lindsay Kemp’s fascinating feature on the Goldbergs in the October issue, one of the subjects he addresses is how...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2020

London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy

La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making. If the finely phrased strings bursting with vivacity in the opening...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2020

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