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RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin

The stream of keyboard tributes to Rameau’s 250th anniversary last year continues with Bertrand Cuiller’s two-disc set for Mirare. His...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas K332, K282, K331

Wittily entitled ‘Keys to Mozart’, Daria van den Bercken’s disc offers a wide-ranging overview of the piano music. Sparsely pedalled,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

KANNO Light, Water, Rainbow

There’s a familiar scale with eight tones (C-D flat-E flat-E natural-F sharp-G-A-B flat) that Scriabin often used. Yoshihiro Kanno employs...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

GRIEG Lyric Pieces

Grieg may not be in the pantheon with the greatest but his freshness of invention continues to give his music...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015

CHOPIN 'Autour des Ballades’

Kotaro Fukuma is a masterly and refined young pianist who, after the virtuoso challenges of Albéniz (Iberia, 10/12) and Balakirev...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 10

It’s not certain if Paavali Jumppanen’s second double-CD release devoted to Beethoven sonatas signifies a cycle in the works, yet...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Six French Suites

Writing in his accompanying essay, Russian-American pianist Sergey Schepkin leaves you in no doubt why Bach is at the heart...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Cello Suites (Complete)

As with so much mainstream repertoire, the catalogue is so full of recordings – good and bad – that there...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Six Sonatas and Partias for Solo Violin

There is delicate ornamentation present here (and not Baroque-specific ornamentation) that is so sparingly used that one would be forgiven...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

CPE BACH Solo Keyboard Music

Miklós Spányi has probably done more than anyone alive to promote CPE Bach’s waywardly inspired keyboard music, sometimes bizarre, even...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015

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