EEE (Eubanks-Evans-Experience)

EEE is an excellent survey of a richly rewarding partnership

Nelson Freire – Memories: The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019

'Every one of these recordings is like gold dust'

Montgeroult: Études (Clare Hammond)

This is beautiful music, wonderfully recorded

Chasing Moonbeams (Paul Guinery)

Delightful discoveries abound. Look no further than the opening track, Blue Blazes by Joseph Tunbridge, one of seven world premiere recordings

Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures (Leif Ove Andsnes)

These are significant pieces, and many suffused with an evanescent charm to which Andsnes does full justice

Haydn: Piano Sonatas: G major Hob XVI:6; E major Hob XVI:31 (Wiener Urtext)

This elegant new edition includes three tasteful cadenza options by Robert Levin for the third movement

Daniel Barenboim: The Pierre Boulez Saal Sessions (Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas)

We Piano Teachers and Our Demons & Afterthoughts of a Pianist/Teacher

The unrelieved sunniness, which some readers may find cloyingly monotonous, features obstinately cheery conclusions about pianists

Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatas (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Leonskaja delivers the goods with sublime assurance, simply letting the piano sing

Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos (Artur Pizarro)

Pizarro's booklet note suggests this was a happy project for him, which can be heard reflected in the performances

Dave Brubeck Trio: Live From Vienna 1967

An essential document of one of jazz's groundbreaking ensembles

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Haochen Zhang)

he more symphonic later concertos fare better, with Zhang and Stutzmann surer in pulse and securing more convincing, impactful interpretations

Raff: Frühlingsboten (‘Heralds of Spring’)

The opening movement unfolds polyphonically in four parts, while the second is in quasi-orchestral martial mode

Transcriptions (Angelo Villani)

It is Villani's melodic touch, projection and careful weighting of chords that gets to the music's core

Dance! – Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé

These are clear, crafted performances in high quality sound captured by Adaq Khan at London's Menuhin Hall