Search the Reviews Database

Ivan Ilić: The Transcendentalist

At a time when virtually everything is available on CD, many pianists search for something both different and enlightening. For...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

Khatia Buniatishvili: Motherland

At her London recital in June, Khatia Buniatishvili played a second half of virtuoso works (Chopin, Ravel, Stravinsky) that bordered...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014

WHITLOCK Organ Sonata

You may think that Percy Whitlock might not have been the most likely composer to produce a successful organ solo...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014

VIERNE Organ Sympoinies Nos 5 & 6

This third volume concludes Hans-Eberhard Ross’s magisterial survey of Vierne’s six organ symphonies, recorded in 2013 on his ‘home’ organ,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2014

TRICOLI Miseri Lares

When he plays live, Valerio Tricoli’s beanpole frame is concealed behind a bank of plugged-in hardware: multiple tape machines, loudspeakers...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Grande Sonata. The Seasons

Alexander Paley has taken the Russian repertoire to heart. His earlier issue of Balakirev’s complete piano works (Brilliant, 5/11) is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

STANFORD Organ Works Vol 2

Like buses that turn up together, so this second volume of Stanford’s organ works comes out at much the same...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2014

SOR Guitar Sonatas

William Carter’s two exquisite volumes of a selection of Fernando Sor’s equally exquisite shorter gems have pretty much spoilt me...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2014

SCRIABIN Etudes for Piano

‘Scriabin, where does he come from, and who are his followers?’ asked Stravinsky, lost in bewilderment and wonder. Others took...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin, Volume I

For the first in a three-release series surveying Rameau’s complete keyboard works, Steven Devine plays on a harpsichord copied from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---