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MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)
Today it is difficult to imagine the ‘market saturation’ enjoyed by Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in the 19th century, an...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Piano (Nikolay Medvedev)
This is my first encounter with Nikolay Medvedev, a Russian pianist born in 1986, a graduate of the Gnessin Russian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
LISZT 'Death and Transfiguration' (Kenneth Hamilton)
You can think of this impressive release as a two-disc illustration of its title or simply as a pair of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
LANGGAARD; SCRIABIN 'Towards the Flame - Eccentric Piano Works' (Gustav Piekut)
Gustav Piekut doubtless raised eyebrows through making his recorded debut with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Danacord, 2019), and a similarly questing...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
BUXTEHUDE Organ Works, Vol 2 (Friedhelm Flamme)
With Bach, approaches to interpretation may be many and varied but there is some kind of established yardstick for such...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2022
BRAHMS Late Piano Pieces (Paul Lewis)
If a single word were to describe what pianists played in public during the 19th century, it might be ‘variety’....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Angela Hewitt)
Now that Angela Hewitt has concluded her Beethoven sonata cycle with two of its ‘biggest guns’, it appears that she...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
JS BACH 'Bach on the Rauwolf Lute' (Jakob Lindberg)
With time, a musical work takes on the character of a character. It’s played by players who, often aided by...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2022
CPE BACH Sonatas & Rondos (Marc-André Hamelin)
Certain performers seem to find a Being John Malkovich-like secret portal to the brain of every composer they play. Marc-André...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022
Specchio Veneziano
As a ‘Venetian mirror’, I suppose it is inevitable that we hear doubles on this album. Le Consort present the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
From Brighton To Brooklyn (Elena Urioste, Tom Poster)
Violinist Elena Urioste is from the US, her pianist husband Tom Poster from the UK, and this recital teases out...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
WEINBERG 'Light in Darkness'
Having earlier recorded the violin sonatas (Challenge Classics, 9/13), Violin Concerto (7/14), violin Concertino (9/15) and solo violin sonatas (9/16),...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Late String Quartets (Fitzwilliam Quartet)
Following on from the Fitzwilliam’s recording of Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden Quartets on Divine Art comes this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
MOZART 'Piano and Winds' (Ma'alot Quintet)
Mozart’s piano concertos were habitually played in quartet or quintet reductions during the 18th century. The composer explicitly authorised such...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022
Ukrainian Piano Quintets
Finally I’ve found my CD equivalent to Proust’s memory-laden madeleine. Not only are the performers former classmates and colleagues of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022
LOCKE The Flat Consort
A difficult, cantankerous personality who bore grudges and spoke his mind without much regard for the consequences. And one possessed...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2022
HIGGINS 'Ekstasis'
Although he has received several major commissions, not least from the Royal Opera House and the BBC Proms, this is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
FUCHS; KORNAUTH Works for viola and piano (Litton Dup)
Lockdown clearly had some consolations. Andrew Litton describes how, with their international careers temporarily on hold, he and his wife...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
DVORÁK String Quartets Vol 4 (Vogler Quartett)
Brahms supposedly destroyed 20 string quartets before publishing his first. His friend Dvořák took a slightly less ruthless approach. Although...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
BRAHMS Three Sonatas (Michael Collins)
This is Michael Collins’s third recording of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonatas. The first was made with Mikhail Pletnev and coupled with...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
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