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Rebeca Omordia: African Pianism Vol 2

The second volume of Rebeca Omordia’s ‘African Pianism’ proves as much of a revelation as the first (5/22). The opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

STOCKHAUSEN Mantra (GrauSchumacher Piano Duo)

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 Ländler (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

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

Movements: Schumann, Ravel, Stravinsky (George Li)

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

LISZT Piano Works (Emmanuel Despax)

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

KOSKINEN Fuga Indiana (Joonas Ahonen)

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

IVES Concord Sonata (Donald Berman)

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

Karim Said plays Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Webern

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

Peter Donohoe plays Granados & Albéniz

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

Nexus: New Works for Trumpet and Piano

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

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