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Martin James Bartlett: Love and Death

It is five years since Martin James Bartlett won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, impressing not merely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019

WEINBERG 24 Preludes (Gidon Kremer)

The centenary of Mieczysaw Weinberg’s birth augurs a wealth of significant new recordings, one of which is undoubtedly this release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. 4 Impromptus (Buniatishvili)

The Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, now just into her thirties, is an artist of strong convictions but it is still...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

RAVEL Complete Works for Solo Piano (Håkon Austbø)

Given the consistent pianistic and stylistic excellence of his Janáček, Scriabin and Messiaen cycles and stimulating Chopin Ballades (9/15), Håkon...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2019

RACHMANINOV 24 Préludes (Boris Giltburg)

Boris Giltburg continues his survey of Rachmaninov with the complete Preludes, launching the disc with a refreshingly straight account of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

GODOWSKY Studies on Chopin's Op 25 (Emanuele Delucchi)

With this release, the young Italian (b1987) becomes only the fourth pianist to have recorded all of Godowsky’s Studies on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Biss. Hewitt)

Jonathan Biss and Angela Hewitt are both nearing the end of their Beethoven sonata cycles, which have evolved very gradually...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier Book 1 (Devine)

Steven Devine’s traversal of The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, with Book 2 to follow, is both thoughtful and thought-provoking....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Six Cello Suites (arr violin. Podger)

Because she can; and why not? Rachel Podger has earned the right to deal briskly with the rights and wrongs...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019

Perpetulum

Philip Glass gets top billing here, unsurprisingly I suppose, for – astonishingly – his first work for percussion ensemble, the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019

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