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The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation

These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024

Eternity

This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024

Schubert + Brahms 2 (Can Çakmur)

If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024

PÄRT Diagrams: Complete Piano Music (Tähe-Lee Liiv)

Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

FINNIS 'Youth'

Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024

FAURÉ Complete Music for Solo Piano (Lucas Debargue)

Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024

CZERNY Nocturnes (Roberte Mamou)

It’s the fate of the Austrian composer Carl Czerny to be known not as the composer of over 1000 compositions...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

BROWN 24 Preludes and Fugues (Nathan Williamson)

In 2011 Christopher Brown began composing 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, completing them in time for his 70th birthday...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 8 & 12 (Gianluca Cascioli)

For his first recording on a fortepiano, Gianluca Cascioli has chosen works by Beethoven composed and published between 1796 and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024

BEETHOVEN Complete Variations for Piano, Vol 2 ( Cédric Tiberghien)

Cédric Tiberghien’s notion of mixing things up, done with such mastery in the first volume of his complete Beethoven variations...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024

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