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BLISS; RUBBRA Piano Concertos (Piers Lane)

Here’s a terrific new version of the dashing Piano Concerto that Bliss wrote for Solomon, who gave the premiere at...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete works for piano trio, Vol 5 (Van Baerle Trio)

The Van Baerle Trio have reached the end of their Beethoven cycle with what one might perhaps call a ‘bonus...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9. Choral Fantasy (Heras-Casado)

While marginally beefed up from their recent recording of the Emperor Concerto (3/20), the Freiburg Barockorchester field a string section...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1 & 4 (Martin Helmchen)

Having enjoyed the quietly confident artistry and musicianship of this team in the Second and Fifth Concertos (12/19), I looked...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2020

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Sarah Connolly; Robert Dean Smith)

This is a performance of such distinction that regardless of one’s personal view of the piece – that is, exactly...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020

Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Vol 2

Like its predecessor (8/18), the second volume of Marston’s ‘Landmarks’ series teems with revelations and curios alike. It begins with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020

Mari Kodama: Kaleidoscope - Beethoven Transcriptions

It takes real thought to come up with something genuinely unusual in Beethoven year, so full marks to Mari Kodama...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2020

I Still Play

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that new music during the past 30 years or so would have taken...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020

SCHUMANN Waldszenen, Nachtstücke & Humoreske

The Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, a 2016 Borletti-Buitoni fellow and winner of the Montreal competition the following year, is a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2020

Finbarr Malafronte: Maestros of the Baroque

If you’re used to the brilliance of the harpsichord music of Rameau and Scarlatti on the instrument for which it...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020

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