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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Steven Hough)

It is a tribute to the quality of Stephen Hough’s musicianship that the new cycle’s most memorable performance should be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020

JS BACH; VIVALDI Double Concertos for Violin and Cello Piccolo

This disc will divide listeners. There are many who, no doubt, will find the performances exciting. Certainly, at no point...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2020

ADAMS Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?

This makes for an intriguing listen straight after DG’s American recording of Thomas Adès’s new Piano Concerto – not least...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020

Piotr Beczała: Vincerò!

Readers may recall reports of an amusing incident at the Wiener Staatsoper back in 2016 when Jonas Kaufmann was ‘stood...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2020

SORABJI Sequentia Cyclica

‘Because it’s there’ was George Mallory’s response as to why he was climbing Everest, yet it might equally apply to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete piano sonatas (Konstantin Lifschitz)

Konstantin Lifschitz is the latest pianist to offer a Beethoven cycle to tie in with the composer’s 250th-anniversary year. These...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020

Andrey Gugnin: Homage to Godowsky

Prepare yourself for a deliciously scintillating potpourri of choice delicacies, full of character and charm, the sort that has virtually...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2020

Aline Van Barentzen: Her earliest recordings

Belying her name, Aline van Barentzen (1897-1981), whom some sources say was a grand-niece of Carl Maria von Weber, was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020

SCARLATTI Sonatas, Vol 2 (Federico Colli)

For his second volume of what is evidently shaping towards a complete survey of all 555 Scarlatti sonatas, the 2012...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020

MOZKOWSKI Piano Works (Etsuko Hirose)

Paderewski famously said of Moszkowski that ‘after Chopin, [he] best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020

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