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DEBUSSY Complete Preludes for Solo Piano (Anna Tsybuleva)

Since her first prize at the 2015 Leeds Competition, Anna Tsybuleva has divided opinions. Her debut album of Fantasies (Champs...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2024

BYRD Organ Works (Pieter-Jan Belder)

As Jon Baxendale observes in his cogent booklet notes to this two-disc collection of Byrd’s keyboard music performed on the...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2024

Busoni & Liszt: The 1950s SPA recordings (Alfred Brendel)

Now well into his 90s, Brendel the essayist remains on compelling form. In a sharp series of thoughts about Busoni,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2024

Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms and Schubert

Alexandre Kantorow completes his survey of Brahms’s piano sonatas with a stunning release that stands up to its two widely...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 29 (Marc-André Hamelin)

Marc-André Hamelin launches into the Hammerklavier Sonata’s opening Allegro with both assertion and transparency. He intelligently scales his dynamics and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Matthew Barley: Light Stories

Harrowing is not a word one would normally associate with a solo cello recital, even one – as here –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH 'The Great Toccata' (Daniel Moult)

How many can recall their first encounter with JS Bach’s celebrated organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565? I...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Six English Suites (Zhu Xiao-Mei)

Although Zhu-Xiao Mei’s somewhat under-the-radar engagement with Bach’s keyboard output has so far encompassed the Goldberg Variations, Well-Tempered Clavier, Art...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2024

Tharaud plays Bach

In September 2005 Nalen Anthoni signed off his review of Alexandre Tharaud’s disc of Bach concerto transcriptions with the words,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2024

CPE BACH Sonatas with Varied Reprises (Tom Beghin)

Have you ever wondered whether classical composers expected performers to vary the repeated sections in sonata movements? This recording sets...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2024

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