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Satie Piano Music

Of all the ill-advised and inappropriate strategies to deploy when performing the solo piano music of Erik Satie, pretending that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2016

RACHMANINOV Études-Tableaux (Complete)

One of Sviatoslav Richter’s great attributes as a Rachmaninov player was his ability to pick and choose among the compositions,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016

MARIOTTE Impressions urbaines. Kakémonos

There has been a resurgence of interest in Antoine Mariotte of late thanks to the revival, in 2014, of his...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

LISZT Opera Transcriptions

It is nearly 20 years since Arnaldo Cohen inaugurated Naxos’s series of all Liszt’s solo piano music (6/97). Leslie Howard,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

GALILEI The Well-Tempered Lute

This latest release from ak Ozmo again demonstrates the London-based lutenist and conductor’s searching intellect and wry imagination. But it...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2016

BORTKIEWICZ Piano Sonata No 2. Fantasiestücke

Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a man born out of his time, musically and physically. He had no time for atonal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert & Beethoven

To call Sokolov’s Schubert heavy-laden would certainly be no exaggeration. However, to say, as the gushy booklet essay does of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2016

The Deer's Cry

Just over a year ago, Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent released an album of music by William Byrd (‘Infelix...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

Christine de Pizan, Chansons et Ballades

What at first glance might seem a little contrived about this programme quickly reveals itself to be a rather brilliant...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016

Birds in Baroque Music

Recorders and sopranos – it might not be Cav/Pag or Gheorghiu and Alagna, but it’s still one of music’s great...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016

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