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LISZT Etudes d’exécution transcendante

Liszt’s cycle of 12 studies (his original idea was to write 24 in each of the major and minor keys)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

LISZT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Kreisleriana

The Mexican-Lebanese pianist Simon Ghraichy avoids the now routine pairing of the Liszt Sonata with the Schumann Fantasy, substituting instead...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

GRANADOS Goyescas. El Pelele

Granados succinctly described his Goyescas suite as a work abounding with ‘great flights of imagination and difficulties’, which, however, have...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2016

Ji Liu: Pure Chopin

Ji Liu’s debut album ‘Piano Reflections’ shot straight to No 1 in the classical charts, making him, apparently, ‘the biggest-selling...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3 FRANCK Prélude, Choral et Fugue

It is a rare thing indeed for a young pianist, fresh from a victory at one of the world’s major...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

BOULEZ Complete Piano Music

Pierre Boulez’s complete oeuvre for solo piano encompasses three piano sonatas (1946, 1948, 1957), a chain of miniatures grouped together...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016

BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony No 9 Piano Transcription

With this release, Yury Martynov wraps up his traversal of Liszt’s transcriptions of all nine Beethoven symphonies, the first complete...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

BARTÓK Mikrokosmos Book 6. 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs

Alfred Brendel has written that, in contrast with a number of composers, Bartók’s scores are notated with the ‘utmost precision’....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 2, 5 & 6

Joachim Eijlander’s first volume of Bach’s Cello Suites (9/15) was a meticulous albeit slightly bland reading which bore all the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2016

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

To pin down the specific problems of this perplexing recording of JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin transcribed...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2016

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