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BRITTEN The Rape of Lucretia. Gloriana

These DVDs illustrate operatic reversals of fortune in complementary ways that seem almost too neat to be coincidental. The Rape...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2014

Splinters: Mariann Marczi

‘Splinters’ couldn’t be more appropriate a name for pianist Mariann Marczi’s collection of Hungarian piano pieces that are generally thorny,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN 6 Bagatelles. Piano Sonata No. 14

Jill Crossland opens with a generally sensitive account of Mozart’s D minor Fantasia, marred only by her impatient ploughing through...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014

Bartlett & Robertson: Selected recordings 1927-1947

Here is that ideal post Christmas present – a box of delights if ever there was one. APR’s two-disc album...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 18

Janina Fialkowska has a palpable vision of how these two different sonatas should work, making them very much her own....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2014

RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit. Valses nobles. Le Tombeau de Couperin

If razor-sharp definition (vif and clarté are central to many French pianists’ musical philosophy) were ultimate virtues in Ravel, then...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

John Ogdon Plays John Ogdon

John Ogdon’s legendary 1979 Indiana University recital was originally announced for release in 1998 on two LPs (Recherché 1004). They...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

Liszt at the Opera

After due reflection, I think this is one of the greatest discs of Liszt’s opera paraphrases I have ever heard....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

J ISSERLIS Piano Music

No doubt that Gramophone readers will respond to the name Julius Isserlis by asking, ‘any relation to the cellist?’ Indeed,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014

HARRISON Vessels

Interviewed on the Another Timbre website, the forty-something British composer Bryn Harrison struggles manfully to put convincing blue water between...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014

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