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CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3; RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Peter Donohoe)

As they join the ranks of éminences grises, many musicians turn retrospective, revisiting repertoire high points to make final refinements....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024

BRAHMS 'Resonances' (Julian Jaeyoung Kim)

The 34-year-old pianist Julian Jaeyoung Kim keeps a vice-like grip on the dotted rhythms in the first movement of Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024

BEACH Piano Music (Martina Frezzotti)

The more I listen to the music of Amy Beach, the more I wonder why it is not more widely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

BARTÓK Marzurkas JANÁČEK On an Overgrown Path (Piotr Anderszewski)

Piotr Anderszewski’s last release, a Gramophone Award winner, carefully curated excerpts from Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (2/21). This...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024

ALKAN Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (Mark Viner)

The more one listens to Alkan’s music, the more one realises what an extraordinary composer he is. Though the three...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

Upheaval: Bosmans, Pejačević, L & N Boulanger

Less than a decade ago, Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was such an unknown that Jeremy Nicholas could begin a...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024

Le Temps retrouvé: Fauré, Bonis, Hahn, Boulanger

A sepia postcard framing the artists, a red rose lying alongside it, illustrates the booklet of ‘Le temps retrouvé’, a...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024

A Lionel Tertis Celebration (Timothy Ridout)

London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet. Piano Quintet

Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

OSWALD 12 Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo (Capella Jenensis)

This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024

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