Review - Michi X3 S2
It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and...
Whether or not he would admit it, playing jazz piano in the cafés of post-war Cologne left its mark on...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
Schubert composed around 450 dances for piano. While their original function may have been modest, all are exemplary of their...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2024
Since his silver medal at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American pianist George Li, who turns 29 this summer, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2024
Sometimes a recording comes up for review which, when you listen to a particular piece that you know well, is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024
Arto Koskinen’s piano cycle Fuga indiana is a group of 17 pieces that aim to synthesise Baroque contrapuntal techniques with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
As the longtime general editor of Charles Ives’s piano works for the Ives Society’s critical edition, it stands to reason...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
As in his previous Rubicon release (4/19), Karim Said again explores connections between teachers and disciples, with Mozart and Beethoven...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Decades of gestation and seasoning inform Peter Donohoe’s excellently engineered readings of Albéniz’s Iberia Books 1 and 2 and the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Had Charles Darwin used musical instruments to back up his theory of evolution, he may well have looked to the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024
The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
It may be more expensive than the original X3, but sensible revisions to both the digital and...
Rob Cowan revisits collections devoted to Mozart, Dukas, the Couperins and more
The latest amplifier technology is making possible truly tiny hi-fi components without compromising...
This book deserves to be snapped up by any lover of British music – and its renaissance that Foreman...
A rewarding read and an ambitious, serious and open-minded addition to the Wagner literature
America’s greatest pre-war baritone commemorated by Marston
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