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PADEREWSKI Sonata, Humoresques etc (Kevin Kenner)

There are at least three good reasons for investing in this fine recording. First, there is the prospect of hearing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2018

LISZT New Discoveries Vol 4 (Leslie Howard)

This, incredibly, is the 100th CD of Liszt’s music for solo piano recorded by the indefatigable Leslie Howard for Hyperion....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2018

IVES Sonata No 2 'Concord Mass' (Rangell; Brylewski)

In the 80 years since John Kirkpatrick gave Ives’s Concord Sonata its first complete performance, the music has evolved from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

CHOPIN Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (version for one piano) (Dina Yoffe)

For anyone who may have missed it, Poland is assuming a leadership position in the use of historical instruments by...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2018

CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Fliter)

Pianists who record Chopin’s Nocturnes usually sequence the works by opus number. Ingrid Fliter differs from most by devising a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 109-111 (Alexandre Tharaud)

Alexandre Tharaud is a musician of wide interests, as compelling in the Baroque as he is delightful in a favourite...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

Dénes Várjon: De la nuit

No doubts about the qualifications of Ravel’s Gaspard for a disc entitled ‘Of the Night’. But only three of Schumann’s...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier (Papastefanou)

Alexandra Papastefanou first came to my attention via a mesmerising performance of Dimitri Mitropoulos’s rarely heard Piano Sonata but her...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH 6 Suites for Solo Viola (Kim Kashkashian)

Performing Bach’s Cello Suites in a transcription for viola is nothing new. Among other viola versions that I have to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH The Complete Organ Works, Vols 8 & 9

Having safely passed the halfway point of his 15-disc traversal of the complete Bach organ works for Signum Classics, David...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2018

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