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D SCARLATTI 52 Keyboard Sonatas (Lucas Debargue)

With the bar for Scarlatti interpretation set as high as it is today by harpsichordists of the communicative depth and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

RAVEL Miroirs STRAVINSKY Firebird. Petrushka (Beatrice Rana)

Since her silver medal at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, I’ve followed the career of Beatrice Rana with great interest....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

Sandro Nebieridze Plays Rachmaninov and Prokofiev

The Harmonia Nova series, of which this is Vol 9, is dedicated to ‘young artists singled out for their exceptional...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas nos 4, 7 & 9 (Alexander Melnikov)

The second instalment of Melnikov’s Prokofiev sonatas covers a kaleidoscope of temperaments. From the sombre and brooding Fourth through the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019

F POTT A Room at the End of the Mind (Jeremy Filsell)

‘One of those composers who seldom tests boundaries, preferring to turn back in search of roads less taken’, is how...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019

MESSIAEN Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Winpenny)

After composing La Transfiguration and attending its fraught premiere in Lisbon in 1968, Messiaen quite swiftly worked up into a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (McCawley)

Light of touch, stylistically assured and brimful of intelligence and wit, Leon McCawley’s second instalment of Haydn sonatas for Somm...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN Pathétique, Funèbre, Clair de Lune & Appassionata

Michel Dalberto’s Beethoven has mellowed since his sparkling early-1980s recordings of the Op 2 and Op 10 trilogies. The music’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019

BALAKIREV Piano Music Vol 5

Nicholas Walker has been toiling away virtually unnoticed in the Balakirev vineyard for the past few decades. Many will recall...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019

ALKAN Symphony and Concerto for Solo Piano (Paul Wee)

Surprisingly, this is the first time that Alkan’s Symphony for Solo Piano and Concerto for Solo Piano have appeared together...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019

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