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Dmitry Shishkin: Concours de Genève, Breguet

With its relatively short duration, five-language notes, moody photographs and generous space allotted to sponsors (Breguet Watches of Switzerland, who...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2020

SWAYNE Stations of the Cross (Simon Nieminski)

For many organists the name of Giles Swayne became associated with their instrument with his Riff-Raff of 1983, which set...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D845, D894, D958 & D960 (Shai Wosner)

Of Shai Wosner’s 13 or so CDs, if my calculations are correct, four are solo recordings, and three of those...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020

SCHARWENKA Piano Music Vol 1 (Luís Pipa)

You have to hand it to Martin Anderson and his endlessly enterprising Toccata Classics label. Hardly a month passes without...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020

Martina Filjak: Light and Darkness

Martina Filjak is a Croatian pianist (b1978) who first came to public attention when she won the Gold Medal at...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020

JANÁCEK Piano Music (Thomas Adès)

One could spend time discussing why a composer of Thomas Adès’s prominence is compelled to record Janáček’s piano music, but...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020

FRANCK Preludes, Fugues and Chorales (Nikolai Lugansky)

Usually a disc of César Franck’s piano music – especially one that includes the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – would...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2020

Jan Michiels: Bach-Busoni

Jan Michiels previously recorded four of Busoni’s Bach chorale prelude transcriptions and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica for a 2010 release on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020

JS BACH Toccatas (Masaaki Suzuki)

Bach’s Toccatas seem to present their interpreters thorny issues. With no surviving manuscripts from Bach himself, and with the number...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020

JS BACH Pour La Luth Ò Cembal (Sean Shibe)

Can you ever speak in elevated, grandiose terms about a classical guitarist? You want to avoid weight, to find instead...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2020

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