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CHOPIN 'Voyage: Late Piano Works' (Yulianna Avdeeva)

In 2010 Yulianna Avdeeva became the first woman to win the Chopin Piano Competition in 45 years (following in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2024

Stella Almondo: Passion

In a way, Stella Almondo’s debut release falls into two parts. The first part brackets an intelligently varied Rachmaninov group...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

BERG; SCHOENBERG; WEBERN Piano Works (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Having continually extended her repertoire these past six decades, Elisabeth Leonskaja turns here to the Second Viennese School with three...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

JS BACH Transcriptions for Two Pianos (Duo Tal & Groethuysen)

The thrill of a fine Bach transcription lies in how a reimagining from the original can reaffirm the qualities and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW2024

JS BACH Preludes, Inventions & Sinfonias (Mahan Esfahani)

Echoes of childhood piano lessons have probably made the two-part Inventions and three-part Sinfonias among the least sexy areas of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2024

Souvenirs: Popular Violin Recital Pieces (Johan Dalene)

A window on the past facilitated by two brilliant young players. The prodigy violinist Johan Dalene (born August 2000) claims...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

Impressions parisiennes (Quatuor Van Kuijk)

Here’s an ingenious idea – a French string quartet album containing only one original work. The usual suspects are present...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2024

Eastern Reflections: Bartók, Lutosławski, Weinberg, Ligeti (Jonathan Leibovitz)

The works presented on this album were composed in Eastern (many there would now prefer the term Central) Europe between...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: AW2024

SCHUBERT; SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonatas (Andreas Willwohl)

It seems that Schubert has become a go-to composer when it comes to contrasting classical-romantic sublimity with more challenging, if...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2024

HOLMBOE String Quartets Vol 3

Having covered already Holmboe’s first and last published thoughts on the string quartet genre (omitting the 10 or so fragmentary...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2024

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