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SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas (Nuno Cernadas. Yunjie Chen )

Scriabin’s mature music features mystical ecstasy entwined with satanism, violence merged with tenderness and aphrodisiacs laced with poison – all...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2025

Lise de la Salle: Phantasmagoria

Lisa de la Salle is a seasoned Lisztian. Her B minor Sonata is beautifully recorded (lovely-sounding piano), considered, technically assured...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2025

FIELD Complete Nocturnes (Alice Sara Ott)

Gone are the days when one heard the name of John Field mentioned only as a precursor of Chopin. Now...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2025

DUFOURT L'Origine du monde

As one of the six separate compositions by Hughes Dufourt on this album, written between 1994 and 2018, L’origine du...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2025

CORRETTE Les Amants Enchantés & other Harpsichord Pieces (Olivier Baumont)

Michel Corrette’s name will be familiar to French Baroque buffs, his copious output perhaps less so; his better-known works include...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2025

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

Here is the sixth and final volume of all nine Beethoven symphonies heard in the arrangements for piano duet by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2025

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 31 BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3 (Kate Liu)

When Kate Liu took the Bronze Medal at the 2015 Warsaw Chopin Competition, it was not a sign of general...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2025

Poème Mystique: Strauss, Bloch, Schubert, Faurè

Korean-American violinist Danbi Um’s second album for Avie offers an unusual pairing of sonatas by Richard Strauss and Ernest Bloch,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025

ZORN Complete String Quartets

John Zorn’s successful career as saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and performer with free-form jazz and experimental improvisational groups such as Masada...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2025

THORVALDSDOTTIR Ubique

Ubique (2023) is a large-scale work for flute – doubling on the bass and contrabass instruments – with piano, two...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2025

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