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Yuja Wang: The Berlin Recital

‘Exceptional artistry, technical perfection and boundless imagination’ it says on the back cover. Such hype normally puts my back up....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2018

Thibaut Garcia: Bach Inspirations

The 24-year-old Franco-Spanish classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia’s third recording – his second for Erato – revisits the music of Bach...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2018

American Landscapes: Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol 3

Like its predecessors, the third volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ is a model of imaginative programme-building....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018

SCHUMANN Humoreske; Davidsbündertänze (Carcano)

Anyone on the receiving end of a Borletti-Buitoni fellowship gets my respect, as it’s generally an indicator of prodigious musical...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (Barry Douglas; Yuan Sheng)

‘Tchaikovsky Plus One’ is the first of a new series in which Barry Douglas pairs some of Tchaikovsky’s principal works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

MESSIAEN La nativité du Seigneur (Richard Gowers)

Messiaen’s nine-movement reflection on the birth of Christ has long earned its place as one of the great classics for...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018

LISZT Complete piano music Vol 51: "Poems" (Goran Filipec)

The latest instalment in Naxos’s series of Liszt’s piano music contains early or otherwise unfamiliar versions of a several quite...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

Wilhelm Backhaus: Chopin, Liszt, Schumann & Beethoven

Wilhelm Backhaus’s Chopin Études, Opp 10 and 25 from 1928, were the first to be recorded as a complete set...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

BRAHMS Late Piano Pieces, Opp 76, 79, 116-119 (Charles Owen)

That Charles Owen has thought deeply about Brahms before committing the late music to disc is obvious from his conversation...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN The complete piano sonatas Vol 7 (Roscoe)

Martin Roscoe began his traversal of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in 2010, billed as the first complete recording of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

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