Brahms: Piano Sonata No 1 in C, Op 1 (Alexandre Kantorow)
Few pianists possess such storming rhetorical mastery, an innate sense of poetry and unwavering musical assurance
Reviews
Bruckner Piano Works (Mari Kodama)
Mari Kodama brings it to life in a fiery performance. In the G major Fantasie we glimpse the mature creator, not the Bruckner sound we all love (or hate)
Grigory Sokolov: Purcell & Mozart
Eschewing his former glory as a Russian virtuoso with repertoire to match, today he turns to music more notable for its inwardness, his vast technical resource fined down to playing of rare delicacy,...
Review - Eloquence box-sets: a library of lost gems
Jonathan Dobson digs for treasure in two box-set collections of mostly obscure recordings from the Westminster, American Decca and Deutsche Grammophon catalogues
Review - Sir András Schiff’s complete Decca recordings
David Threasher welcomes a celebratory box of Sir András Schiff’s complete Decca recordings
Review - Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 (Emmanuel Despax)
Despax’s approach to the B minor Sonata is impressive – even grandiose – creating a highly personal sound world with tremendous scale and power yet with finesse and subtlety
Review - Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge: ‘The Complete Recordings’
APR is to be congratulated for shining a light on these two remarkable and little-known pianists
Review - Hindemith: Mathis der Maler – Symphony. The Four Temperaments; Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings (Anna Gourari)
A sparkling and perceptive performance
Review - Ives: Piano Sonata No 2, ‘Concord, Mass, 1840-1860’. The St Gaudens ‘Black March’ (Donald Berman)
This is Ives interpretation at its most perceptive
Review - Yvonne Loriod's Complete Véga Recordings
Richard Whitehouse explores the complete Véga recordings by Yvonne Loriod, reissued to mark her centenary, and finds a pianist of wide-ranging sympathies
Review - ‘Movements’ (George Li)
A fully convincing display of the still-young pianist’s musicianship, blending maturity, intelligence and sensitivity with fully fledged prowess
Review - Debussy: Images (Saskia Giorgini)
The key to this release is the intimacy, often merged with yearning, at its core
Review - Mozart & Poulenc: Double & Triple Concertos (Karin Kei Nagano, Mari Kodama, Momo Kodama)
It’s a true family affair, and the rapport is palpable in performances that revel in the joyfulness abounding in both works
Review - Albéniz: Iberia – Books 1 & 2; Granados: Goyescas, Op 11 – Book 1 (Peter Donohoe)
Whether you find the performances refreshingly uneccentric or slightly lacking in spice will depend on your taste
Review - Beethoven | Mozart | Schoenberg | Webern (Karim Said)
With pianists of the stature of Schnabel, Brendel, Richter, Gilels and most recently Cédric Tiberghien in the catalogue, this is hard to recommend
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