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Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op 16. Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op 54 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Leonskaja seems to hold the Grieg Concerto – which, despite many similarities to the Schumann, postdates it by 23 years – at something of an arm’s length

‘La Danse’ (Martin James Bartlett)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

One of the most playful sprints through Ravel’s La valse I’ve heard

Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 18, K456; No 21, K467 (Jonathan Fournel)

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Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Fournel’s assured pianism belies the fact that this release marks his recorded concerto debut

Bartók: Bagatelles. Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book 2. Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50 (Piotr Anderszewski)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

This is an extraordinary album; hardly for those of a nervous disposition or for late-night listening

‘Berlin 1923’ – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 15. Schulhoff: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 43 (Herbert Schuch)

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Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

The finale is a total success, with good dynamic variety and a marvellously rowdy delivery of the central subordinate theme

Field: 18 Nocturnes (Tyler Hay)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Tyler Hay’s performance draws as much attention to Field’s similarity with Dussek, Hummel, late Clementi and even Beethoven as to his influence on Chopin

Saint-Saëns: Six études pour piano, Op 52 (Bärenreiter)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Bärenreiter has done Saint-Säens proud with this release

‘Natural Connection – Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World’ (Leon McCawley)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Obviously there’s room in the market for compilations like this, but Leon McCawley’s artistry surely deserves a better vehicle

N Boulanger: Fantaisie variée. Fauré: Après un rêve, etc. Hahn Piano Concerto (William Youn)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

I doubt if Youn’s more neutral performance will win new friends for music dismissed as difficult and obscure

Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (Nikolai Lugansky)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Lugansky takes us on an eternal journey, metamorphosing his Steinway into a larger-than-life orchestra intricate in texture, colour and associative imagery

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 83. Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 (Elly Ney)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Ney is a classic case of the divided self, the frequent division of an artist’s outer and inner nature

Brown: Baroquery, Op 105. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 99 (Nathan Williamson)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

Taken as a whole, this is a remarkably assured set, one that in whole or in part deserves the widest currency

‘Schubert + Brahms’ – Schubert: Impromptus, D935. Drei Klavierstücke, D946. Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119 (Can Çakmur)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

It would be difficult to imagine a less evasive Schubertian, or one who turns such an ironic eye on the amicable and domestic world of the ‘Schubertiads’

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

There is a wonderful holistic unity, an organic authenticity about the way the exercises are presented

Live Review: Le Piano Symphonique (Lucerne)

Review

Friday, March 8, 2024

| International Piano

In a very lively acoustic the Steinway piano was too brittle for this music but Fray coaxed it into subtlety between the moments of frenzy

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Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op 16. Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op 54 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

‘La Danse’ (Martin James Bartlett)

Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 18, K456; No 21, K467 (Jonathan Fournel)

Bartók: Bagatelles. Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book 2. Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op 50 (Piotr Anderszewski)

‘Berlin 1923’ – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 15. Schulhoff: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 43 (Herbert Schuch)

Field: 18 Nocturnes (Tyler Hay)

Saint-Saëns: Six études pour piano, Op 52 (Bärenreiter)

‘Natural Connection – Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World’ (Leon McCawley)

N Boulanger: Fantaisie variée. Fauré: Après un rêve, etc. Hahn Piano Concerto (William Youn)

Wagner: Famous Opera Scenes (Nikolai Lugansky)

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2, Op 83. Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D760 (Elly Ney)

Brown: Baroquery, Op 105. 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 99 (Nathan Williamson)

‘Schubert + Brahms’ – Schubert: Impromptus, D935. Drei Klavierstücke, D946. Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119 (Can Çakmur)

The New Busoni: Exercises and Studies for the Piano, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edition Breitkopf)

Live Review: Le Piano Symphonique (Lucerne)

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