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Tamar Beraia: Portrait

For her debut album, Tamar Beraia, a 27-year-old Georgian pianist, offers a richly comprehensive programme. Her quicksilver brilliance lends a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

REGER Organ Works Vol 14

As the song says, ‘Nice and easy does it’, except that for those who perform Reger’s organ music, assessing relevant...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2014

PROKOFIEV Piano Pieces. Sarkasms. Piano Sonata No 4

Evgenia Rubinova’s wide-ranging recital commences with the Op 12 Pieces, composed when Prokofiev was 15, their balletic charms already spiced...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

PAGANINI 24 Caprices

How on earth does one transfer Paganini’s Op 1, a vade mecum of idiomatic violin pyrotechnics, to the flute? Though...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

LISZT Verdi Paraphrases and Free Transcriptions

Odradek is a non-profit artist-controlled label that gives all proceeds to the artist after production and distribution costs are recuperated....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

CHOPIN Ballades

For the second volume in her Chopin series, the young French pianist Hélène Tysman focuses on the Ballades, interweaving them...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014

CHOPIN Nocturnes and Impromptus

In this third volume of Chopin, Louis Lortie offers a bouquet of Nocturnes and Impromptus alongside the Third Sonata on...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014

CHOPIN Etudes Opp 10 & 25

This legendary disc was made in 1959 when Ashkenazy, aged 22, suffered confinement behind the Iron Curtain. His early recordings...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

ALKAN Concerto for Solo Piano. Comme le vent

For Vincenzo Maltempo there are few reservations regarding Alkan’s genius. He admits that Alkan’s works, which range from the epic...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

Pohádka: Music for Cello and Piano

The principal draw here is David Geringas’s reflective and deeply affecting version of the third of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, ‘Ich bin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014

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