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Passage secret: Bizet, Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Aubert

Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle are a formidably well-equipped duo whose acquaintance I first made back in 2017 with their...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024

From Handel’s Home: The Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House (Julian Perkins)

When the Handel (now Handel Hendrix) House opened in 2001, it could make use of only the top floors of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Sergey Khachatryan)

The brilliant Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan treats us to yet another superb set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, vibrant, forceful,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2024

WAGNER 'Famous Opera Scenes' (Nikolai Lugansky)

Listen to Josef Hofmann’s 1923 recording of Louis Brassin’s transcription of Wagner’s Magic Fire Music and you’ll hear one of...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024

SORABJI Toccata Terza (Abel Sánchez-Aguilera)

Composed in 1955, the manuscript of Sorabji’s two-hour-plus Toccata terza had been missing for decades when it was rediscovered in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024

RAVEL Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol 1 (Vincent Larderet)

Here is the first of four planned discs devoted to Ravel’s piano works that promises to be painstakingly comprehensive, with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024

RACHMANINOV Piano Duos (Babayan; Trifonov)

This album of Rachmaninov’s two-piano music offers a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness. Add to...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2024

Debussy and Ravel for Two

A quick glance at the repertoire above and it seems to be a nice programme of well-known piano pieces by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024

CHOPIN Variations in B-Flat Major. Sonata in B-Flat Minor (Aleksandra Swigut)

Keeping track of the Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina’s ‘The Real Chopin’ period-instrument releases can be daunting, given the sheer volume...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Franz Halász)

Fans of German guitarist Franz Halász’s take on Bach’s so-called Lute Suites (9/19) and his earlier recording of the three...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2024

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