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CAVALLI Il Giasone (Alarcón)

There’s something riotous about Il Giasone. Cavalli’s 1649 opera – the most-performed of the 17th century – positively delights in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete Works for Solo Piano (Valentina Lisitsa)

Valentina Lisitsa is bold, fearless and forthright to just the right degree in the early works, keen to relish every...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

Alexander Krichel: An die ferne Geliebte

Since Alexander Krichel’s remarkable 2011 debut recording, with its compelling Liszt B minor Ballade and selections from the second Année...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019

Mikhail Pletnev: Live from Moscow, 1979

Mikhail Pletnev was 21 when he won the Gold Medal at the 1978 Tchaikovsky Competition, and if there were any...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

WIDOR Organ Symphonies 5, 6, 8-10 (Christian Schmitt)

Time was when Charles-Marie Widor was known only for his Toccata in F, which, in all its multitudinous recorded versions,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2019

SAY Troy Sonata

You don’t have to know that Fazıl Say’s 10-part Troy Sonata is a musical parallel to Homer’s Iliad in order...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

RADULESCU Complete Piano Works (Ortwin Stürmer)

Although he never quite made the transition from cult artist to mainstream composer, Horaţiu Rădulescu (1942-2008) is widely regarded as...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019

Alexander Ullman: The Nutcracker, Petrushka, Cinderella

It’s just not fair. The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2019

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition RAVEL Miroirs (Donohoe)

If technicolour accounts of Mussorgsky’s Pictures are not your thing, and you wish the pianist wasn’t determined to make the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2019

FRANCK Piano works (Michael Korstick)

On the surface, Michael Korstick’s interpretation of Franck’s Prélude, choral et fugue is a model of control and forethought, with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

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