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James Rhodes: Mania

When James Rhodes first appeared on the scene, his punk-rock stage attitude and harrowing backstory sometimes pulled focus from his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2025

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason: Fantasie

The first movement of this Chopin Second Sonata successfully balances extremes of tempo and affect. The Doppio movimento begins like...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2025

Alain Planes: Satie

This latest album by Alain Planès forms a neat symmetry with the pianist’s earlier recording of Satie’s compositions for piano...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2025

RAVEL Complete Solo Piano Works. Piano Concertos (Seong-Jin Cho)

Seong-Jin Cho has recently been celebrated for a series of Ravel marathons, single concerts in which he played the complete...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2025

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. The Isle of the Dead (Boris Giltburg)

Having covered the concertos, Preludes, Études-tableaux and Moments musicaux to warm plaudits, Boris Giltburg now turns his attention to the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

F&F MENDELSSOHN 'Guess Who?'

Every so often a pianist comes forward, albeit tentatively, suggesting that we have another listen to Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2025

LISZT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Carnaval (Daniel Grimwood)

The latest release from the British pianist Daniel Grimwood explores music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Liszt, using an...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2025

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29 LISZT Piano Sonata (Haochen Zhang)

The 2009 Van Cliburn joint first prizewinner continues his recorded traversal of Himalayan pianistic peaks. Reviewers have justly praised Haochen...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 2 (Masato Suzuki)

Masato Suzuki has not hung around in getting down both books of Bach’s Well-Tempered Claver. Book 1 came out only...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2025

JS BACH Organ Works, Vol 7 – Leipzig Chorales II (Masaaki Suzuki)

Volume 7 of Suzuki’s Bach collection is by way of a companion to Vol 6, completing the collection of Leipzig...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2025

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