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LISZT Legends, Prayers, Poems, Waltzes (Ránki Fülöp)

The 30-year-old pianist Fülöp Ránki hails from a musical family. A native of Budapest, he studied under Jeno˝ Jandó, István...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2025

KURTÁG Játékok (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

As György Kurtág’s 2026 birth-centenary approaches, Pentatone is taking the lead in releasing recordings with which he himself was closely...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2025

HABA Complete Piano Works (Miroslav Beinhauer)

Alois Hába (1893-1973) is best known as a composer who experimented with microtonal music, as borne out in a three-disc...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2025

GODOWSKY Java Suite (Tobias Borsboom)

Tobias Borsboom’s recording of the Java Suite coincides with the centenary of its publication. This is, I think, only the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2025

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 (Benjamin Grosvenor)

Benjamin Grosvenor’s Chopin is undoubtedly of the highest class, securely navigating as it does between temptations to understate or overstate....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2025

Rustem Hayroudinoff: Bach & Sons

Rustem Hayroudinoff’s recording history so far has centred on Rachmaninov, so it is quite a change to find him turning...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2025

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II LASSER 12 Preludes for Solo Piano (Anton Mejias)

Commissioned for pianist Anton Mejias, Philip Lasser’s The Art of Memory is a series of 12 preludes in descending chromatic...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2025

Krzysztof Meisinger: The Spanish Album

For his latest release, Polish guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger reimagines the Spanish classical repertoire through gorgeous, dazzling arrangements for guitar, percussion...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025

The Last Rose: Songs, Tunes and Dances from a Mysterious Manuscript

This beautiful recording brings to life a mysterious manuscript probably compiled between 1660 and 1670 and containing works by Anthony...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025

Chu-Yu Yang: An English Pastoral

A watercolour, Caravans by Eric Ravilious, pictured on the CD booklet, links the music of Bliss, Finzi and Gurney, whose...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2025

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