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Peter Donohoe: Waltzes

Peter Donohoe takes his time over the course of Schumann’s Abegg Variations, shaping the long phrases with expansive yet elegantly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

Alexi Kenney: Shifting Ground

This solo recital is ‘an exploration of how Bach’s influence has rippled through time’, Alexi Kenney writes in a very...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

Polyphonic Dreams (Victor Nicoara)

Having already established his Busoni credentials in a collection centred on the six Sonatinas (A/21), Victor Nicoara now releases this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

New Dances of the League of David

The idea of contemporary composers writing works in direct response to masterpieces by composers from the past may be old...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

Made in USA - Gershwin, Beach, Barber (Claire Huangci)

I remember first hearing Claire Huangci’s blazing Paderewski Concerto (Berlin Classics) and being knocked out by her dexterity as she...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21 (Ronald Brautigam)

Schubert’s final piano sonatas are strange works, full of odd phrase lengths, unexpected modulations, bewildering detours and juxtapositions of seemingly...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

NIELSEN 'Espansiva’

Nielsen for piano four hands. Who knew? Probably only those who had been assiduous enough to read the prefaces to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2024

HOSOKAWA 'Awakening: Works for Guitar' (Jacob Kellermann)

Like his countryman Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa has written often and well for the classical guitar. This new...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2024

GLASS Complete Piano Études (Máire Carroll)

These two sets of Études occupy a significant place in Philip Glass’s voluminous output, as is reflected by a now...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

CHOPIN; SCRIABIN; YASHIRO '72 Preludes' (Mao Fujita)

Reporting on the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in the August issue of International Piano that year, James Jolly hailed silver medallist...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

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