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RACHMANINOV; STRAVINSKY Piano Works (Karine Poghosyan)

The powerful, impassioned pianism displayed in the Armenian-American pianist Kariné Poghosyan’s all-Khachaturian solo debut CD (Grand Piano, 2015) remains evident...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 6-8 (Steven Osborne)

Steven Osborne’s assured mastery in a wide range of repertoire continues to expand and amaze. At first hearing, the pianist...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020

KHACHATURIAN Piano Works (Iyad Sughayer)

Apart from the ubiquitous Toccata and the Piano Concerto, championed and first recorded by William Kapell with Koussevitzky and the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2020

Anna Fedorova: Storyteller

After her selection of fantasies on her previous Channel Classics disc (11/18), the Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova here moves to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2020

Polina Osetinskaya: Bach; Scarlatti

Polina Osetinskaya imbues each of this disc’s Bach and Scarlatti selections with a full-bodied sonority built from the bottom up,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Thomas Zehetmair)

Two fine instruments were used for these recordings, a c1685 violin by a South Tyrolean master for the Partitas, and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020

ALWYN; CARWITHEN Piano Works (Daniel Grimwood)

This is not the first time that the works of both husband and wife have appeared together on the same...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020

The Russian Album: Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Shchedrin

It’s not just Yuja Wang whose encores threaten to steal the show. Christoph Croisé and Alexander Panfilov’s ‘Russian Album’ is...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020

The Lyrical Clarinet Vol 3 (Michael Collins)

A new CD from Michael Collins is like walking into a three-star Michelin restaurant: you don’t know exactly what’s on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

TELEMANN Frankfurt Violin Sonatas

When Bruce Haynes proclaimed ‘the end of early music’ in the title of his book from 2007, he did not...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020

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