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Satie Slowly

‘If Satie’s piano pieces are so easy, why are they so badly played?’ asks Philip Corner in the chunky booklet...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Transcriptions & Arrangements for Organ

This is an intriguing proposition, but one that contains sufficient musical delight to warrant a serious audition. The high quality...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes

Leaving frantic and over-pressured playing to others, Leon McCawley finds a delicate emotional fervour with no lack of drama in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas (Marc-André Hamelin)

Mozart’s piano sonatas are still underrated, I dare say, apart from a handful. There are eight of them here, on...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music 3

Mendelssohn and Howard Shelley are a musical marriage made in heaven. Stylish and delectably light-fingered, Shelley makes a flawless case...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

MEDTNER Piano Sonatas

Medtner is a ‘marmite’ composer. Even some fervent pianophiles struggle, especially on a first hearing, with the profusion of ideas...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

MCCABE Le poisson magique

John McCabe was noted, of course, as a composer-pianist, in the former role notably for piano and orchestral works. But...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

LEGUIZAMÓN El Cuchi Bien Temperado

The title of Pablo Márquez’s latest release is intriguing – ‘The Well-Tempered Pig’ – and requires explanation. ‘Cuchi’ was the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015

KURTÁG Játékok

György Kurtág’s Játékok (‘Games’) is one of the more remarkable musical projects to emerge in the post-war era. Begun in...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

HASSE Sonatas from the Italian Manuscripts

Known for his immense and influential operatic and sacred output, Johann Adolf Hasse wrote relatively little for solo keyboard. All...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

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