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Montage

The six film composers represented on ‘Montage’ have between them amassed 72 Oscar nominations and eight wins. ‘But,’ ponders the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015

Dana Zemtsov: Enigma

There are points in Dana Zemtsov’s performance of Michael Kugel’s Sonata-Poème where her double-stopping is so perfectly tuned, so varied...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

Magdalena Zuk: Couleur de Temps

The young Polish pianist Magdalena Zuk here offers a beautifully balanced sequence of pieces centring on nine by Szymanowski. Plainly...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015

WHITLOCK Radio Broadcasts

Remember recording music from radio broadcasts on to tape cassettes? Here is the digital (and legal) equivalent. It is culled...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015

TURINA El Castillo de Almodovar.Partita. Rincones de Sanlucar

Volume 10 continues Jordi Masó’s pilgrimage through Turina’s complete piano music. Less easily exportable than Falla, Albéniz, Granados or the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015

SCRIABIN Complete Mazurkas

Scriabin’s 21 mazurkas are a loving and audacious tribute to Chopin. Audacious because, with the exception of Szymanowski (his 20...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015

SCHUBERT Works for Four Hands Vol 1

Having recorded Schubert’s complete piano music on period instruments, Jan Vermeulen now launches a cycle dedicated to the composer’s abundant...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 9 & 10. Sonatinas. Cello Sonata

Even if Prokofiev sonata cycles are no longer rarer than hen’s teeth, Boris Berman’s 1990s Chandos sequence has remained a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2015

MESSIAEN Les Corps Glorieux

Les Corps Glorieux and La Nativité du Seigneur are Olivier Messiaen’s two major pre-war organ cycles, works that helped clarify...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

DEBUSSY Préludes (Complete)

With Debussy’s Préludes attracting some exceptional recordings (and I include as comparisons only those by contemporary pianists), it’s a bold...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015

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