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SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas (Vincenzo Maltempo)

‘Be careful with Scriabin’s music; don’t go too far or you might end up losing your sanity.’ So a teacher...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2019

SCHUBERT Late Piano Sonatas (Francesco Piemontesi)

Francesco Piemontesi presents here Schubert’s last three sonatas, all recorded in February 2018 in the same Swiss venue, though the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2019

SCARLATTI Sonatas Vol 6 (Pierre Hantaï)

Who could complain that Pierre Hantaï is taking his time to roam among Scarlatti’s sonatas – 26 years after the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019

RIPPE Un Perfaict Sonneur de Leut (Paul O'Dette)

The Italian Renaissance lutenist/composer Albert de Rippe’s playing may or may not have had the power, as was said, to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2019

PROKOFIEV Vision fugitives (Florian Noack)

I first became acquainted with Florian Noack’s gifts for lyricism and sensitivity through several Lyapunov discs released by ARS Produktion...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

LISZT Piano Sonata. 2 Legendes (Joseph Moog)

Joseph Moog has one of those techniques that most pianists only dream about. His passagework fairly shimmers with prodigious effortlessness...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

ENESCU Piano Sonata No 3. Suite Op 18 (Saskia Giorgini)

Unlike his first two suites for piano, Enescu’s Op 18 is essentially a collection of individual, unrelated pieces brought together...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Paganini Variations (Nelson Goerner)

Given the warm reception accorded his 2009 Brahms B flat Concerto with Tadaaki Otaka and the NHK SO (7/18), it...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 9 (Jonathan Biss)

Amid the veritable blizzard of Beethoven recordings that has already begun in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of his birth...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

BACH; REGER Brandenburg Concertos (PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann)

Reger’s transcriptions for piano duet of the six Brandenburg Concertos date from the early 1900s. They were so well received,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

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