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ADÈS The Exterminating Angel

Screen filming can do a troubled opera like this one a multitude of favours. When I saw Tom Cairns’s production...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

Karim Said: Legacy

The thematic trajectory of Karim Said’s recital concerns the connection between composers and their disciples, with works by William Byrd...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

Tamara Stefanovich: Influences

Each of the four pieces on this disc specifically embraces diverse cultural references: Ives’s First Sonata’s American popular idioms circa...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

From Byrd to Byrd

Friederike Chylek, a German harpsichordist who has specialised in English keyboard music of the 16th and 17th centuries, has released...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2019

The French Piano School 1 & 2

APR is launching a fascinating new series of recordings devoted to French pianism called ‘The French Piano School’. As Charles...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 5 (Lukas Geniusas)

The story of the underdog supposedly autodidact Frenchman Lucas Debargue getting to the finals of 2015 Tchaikovsky competition stole the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

MOZART Piano Sonatas (Jean Muller; Peter Donohoe)

It’s not unusual for pianists more associated with later, large-scale virtuoso music to reach a rapprochement with Mozart. Jean Muller...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019

DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 4 (Roscoe)

A set of fearsomely demanding concert études, a neo-Gothic exuberant Passacaglia, a Baroque-meets-Romantic suite and a Lisztian cycle of character...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

Michael Roll plays Liszt and Beethoven

The back cover of this disc states that, since his victory in the first-ever Leeds International Piano Competition in 1963...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019

BEETHOVEN Bagatelles. Diabelli Variations (Imogen Cooper)

Somehow it was a while since I had heard the Op 119 Bagatelles, and I’m grateful to Imogen Cooper for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2019

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