Search the Reviews Database

Cyborg Pianist

It’s not uncommon these days for new releases to be saddled with adjectives like groundbreaking or cutting-edge. But from time...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW23

El Bohemio

This is a portrait of the legendary Paraguayan guitarist and composer Agustín Barrios (1885-1944) with a difference: his music, and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW23

Miloš: Baroque

‘Baroque’ is Montenegrin classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić’s most virtuosic album to date. That is, he asks the famous question, ‘Sonata,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW23

SIMAKU 'Solo'

When Thomas Simaku, born in Albania, moved to the UK in 1991, he discovered the 20th-century avant-garde tradition. Thereafter, his...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW23

Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid (Sergei Kvitko)

Pianist Sergei Kvitko’s booklet notes discuss at great length the conception and evolution of this all-Schubert programme centred around the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

PARRY Piano Music (Richard Deering)

Parry’s piano music has received scant attention over the past 50 years. Recordings by John Parry (Pearl, 7/78 – nla)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW23

LISZT Études d’exécution transcendante (Haochen Zhang)

Since sharing the Gold Medal at the Cliburn Competition in 2009, Haochen Zhang has accumulated a choice discography – but...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt, Vol Two: Salon and Stage

Listening to Liszt’s take on Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture – creative in the most authentic sense – is to recall Ronald...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW23

FRANCK Piano Works (Ingmar Lazar)

Interest in Franck’s solo piano music has focused on the Prélude, aria et final and the Prélude, choral et fugue....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

COUPERIN Complete Harpsichord Music (Massimo Berghella)

With this recording of the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin, we can safely retire the usual introduction to the...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW23

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---