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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 19-21 (Lonquich)

It seems everything needs a theme these days, so here we have from Alexander Lonquich Schubert’s last piano works in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2019

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, Book 3 (Tiberghien)

The third ‘year’ of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage is something of a connoisseur’s collection, containing as it does only one...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2019

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 1 (Roman Rabinovich)

Roman Rabinovich was born in 1985 in Tashkent and studied in Israel and at the Juilliard School. He has given...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2019

GLASS The Hours. Distant Figure (Batagov)

The success of Philip Glass’s music to Stephen Daldrey’s 2002 film The Hours has spawned several recordings of the piano...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2019

DEBUSSY Études RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (Joseph Moog)

The aesthetic and technical demands of Debussy’s Études and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit represent a badge of honour, even...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2019

DEBUSSY Preludes (Ashkenazy)

A new recording by Ashkenazy as pianist is always newsworthy; but the real (re-)discovery here is his account of the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2019

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3 (Maurizio Pollini)

During the past two seasons, Pollini has toured with programmes that devoted ample space to Chopin. His victory at the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2019

CHAMINADE Piano Music (Mark Viner)

Contrary to what you might think, there have been several CDs devoted entirely to the piano music of Cécile Chaminade....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique (arr piano 4 hands)

The pianists write in their booklet accompanying this release that Jean-François Heisser made this transcription over 30 years ago. It...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019

Jennifer Pike: The Polish Violin

This is – in the best possible sense – a high-calorie recital, and I wonder if the way it’s presented...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019

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