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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

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