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SCHUMANN Piano Works (Llŷr Williams)
This pair of generously filled discs attests to the Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams’s passion for this repertoire and his capacity...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024
MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Igor Levit)
This latest release from the pianist and activist Igor Levit is his personal response to the atrocities of 7 October....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
GRANADOS Goyescas. El pelele (Javier Perianes)
The main challenge for pianists taking on Granados’s Goyescas is making both literal and musical sense out of the composer’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
FERNÁNDEZ Piano Music (Martin Jones)
You have to hand it to Martin Jones. Now in his 84th year, he has amassed an extraordinary discography of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
CORRETTE; DANDRIEU 'French Organ Music of the Golden Age Vol 8' (David Ponsford)
Volume 8 of David Ponsford’s magisterial survey of 18th-century French organ music was recorded in May 2023 in Marmoutier Abbey...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3; RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Peter Donohoe)
As they join the ranks of éminences grises, many musicians turn retrospective, revisiting repertoire high points to make final refinements....
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
BRAHMS 'Resonances' (Julian Jaeyoung Kim)
The 34-year-old pianist Julian Jaeyoung Kim keeps a vice-like grip on the dotted rhythms in the first movement of Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
BEACH Piano Music (Martina Frezzotti)
The more I listen to the music of Amy Beach, the more I wonder why it is not more widely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
BARTÓK Marzurkas JANÁČEK On an Overgrown Path (Piotr Anderszewski)
Piotr Anderszewski’s last release, a Gramophone Award winner, carefully curated excerpts from Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (2/21). This...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
ALKAN Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (Mark Viner)
The more one listens to Alkan’s music, the more one realises what an extraordinary composer he is. Though the three...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Upheaval: Bosmans, Pejačević, L & N Boulanger
Less than a decade ago, Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was such an unknown that Jeremy Nicholas could begin a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
Le Temps retrouvé: Fauré, Bonis, Hahn, Boulanger
A sepia postcard framing the artists, a red rose lying alongside it, illustrates the booklet of ‘Le temps retrouvé’, a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
A Lionel Tertis Celebration (Timothy Ridout)
London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
SCHUMANN Piano Quartet. Piano Quintet
Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024
OSWALD 12 Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo (Capella Jenensis)
This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello & Piano (Sol Gabetta)
Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
Handel for Trumpet: Concertos and Arias Re-Imagined (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)
Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024
FAURÉ The Music for Cello and Piano
This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024
CORBETTA 'La Guitarre Royalle'
It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024
WF BACH; GOLDBERG Trio Sonatas
If it did nothing else, Forkel’s origin story for the Goldberg Variations immortalised the name of Bach’s student, who would...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2024
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