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VILLA-LOBOS 'Do Brazil' (Wilhem Latchoumia)
The La Dolce Volta label’s high-end production values have always befitted Wilhem Latchoumia’s intelligent musicianship and cultivated pianism. Collectors familiar...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
Diaries: Schumann (Tiffany Poon)
Hong Kong-born New York-based Tiffany Poon is one of the piano world’s most enterprising vloggers and YouTube denizens, as well...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Works Vol 7 (Vladimir Feltsman)
In Vladimir Feltsman’s burly hands, Schubert’s Impromptus leap out of the drawing room into the opera house. The characteristically swimmy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
POULENC Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)
Poulenc always claimed that the truest measure of his piano-writing was to be found not in the solo works or...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2024
MUSSORGSKY Pictures SCHUMANN Kriesleriana (Robert Neumann)
‘If you play the text as it is printed you cannot hope for the music to make much sense. The...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2024
HAMELIN New Piano Works
Oh. My. Word. This is, I think, an important recording, not merely because it captures some of the most astonishing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
Philip Glass: Solo
‘If I’m to be remembered for anything’, Philip Glass has remarked, ‘it will probably be for the piano music, because...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024
BORENSTEIN Études, Opp. 66 & 86 & other piano works (Tra Nguyen)
Still in his early 50s, Nimrod Borenstein is rapidly establishing himself among the most recorded of contemporary composers in the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 2 (Beatrice Rana)
After elongating the opening bars of the Grave introduction of Chopin’s B flat minor Sonata, Beatrice Rana launches into the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
Alon Sariel: Plucked Bach II
This is an all-round stunning recording that has me desperately holding out for a ‘Plucked Bach III’. With the first...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024
JS BACH Six Partitas (Giulia Nuti)
Anglo-Italian harpsichordist Giulia Nuti has a longish discography as a lively and quick-fingered continuo player but this is only her...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
Take 3
Pianist Polina Leschenko’s contribution to the booklet of this new album with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Reto Bieri is an essay...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2024
Path To the Moon
Take note of the cover artwork to Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman’s ‘Path to the Moon’, because its...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
Alena Baeva: Fantasy
An enthralling programme that stretches the idea of musical fantasy from the shorter of Schubert’s two great, late chamber works...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024
Live from the Concertgebouw: Piano trios by Shostakovich and Silvestrov
So far as the Shostakovich Trios are concerned, Korobeinikov, Gluzman and Moser enter a well-populated field but still manage to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
The Passenger: Piano Trios by Weinberg & Schubert
As pairings of composers go, there is a lot to commend Schubert and Weinberg. Apart from Schubert being one of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2024
PROKOFIEV 'Prokofiev Milestones Vol 1'
This attractive CD is a fresh look at some of Prokofiev’s chamber repertoire, although I wondered whether ‘milestones’ is the...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2024
LOCKE Consorts Flat and Sharp
This disc completes the suites ‘for My Cousin Kemble’ begun on Phantasm’s previous Matthew Locke recording (11/18) and twins them...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2024
LEFANU 'The Path Above the Dunes'
Métier continues its welcome coverage of Nicola LeFanu with this volume of four works spanning some 46 years of her...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024
Haydn All-Stars
Crisp, brightly sharp-edged and powerful, vibrato-less and pleasantly dry, the opening chord of Haydn’s Piano Trio in E minor, HobXV:12,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
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