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Nelson Freire: Brasileiro

Nelson Freire, imperceptibly assuming the mantle of the piano’s elder statesman, is now in his late sixties. There are few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

Nobuyuki Tsujii Live at Carnegie Hall

It so happened that I set about reviewing this DVD during the first week of the Paralympics. The sight of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

SPOHR Piano Sonata, Op 125 ONSLOW Piano Sonata, Op 2

Spohr’s symphonies – all recorded by Howard Shelley, incidentally, in his alter ego as conductor – Nonet, Octet and clarinet...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 4

Christa Landon’s numbering of the sonatas to 62 in the Wiener Urtext edition is followed, though Georg Feder (The New...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012

FRANÇAIX Music for Piano, Piano Duet & Two Pianos

Martin Jones is one of Britain’s most-recorded pianist, with complete sets of Mendelssohn and Brahms (to name but two) offset...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The French Suites

Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

Silfra

‘Silfra’, described in Hilary Hahn and Volker Bertelmann’s booklet-notes as ‘the culmination of a two-year exploratory improvisation project’, serves up...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

Quartet Choreography

Any release spunky enough to embrace Ligeti’s and Finnissy’s Second Quartets – not to mention Stravinsky’s Three Pieces and Lutosławski’s...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

Martha Argerich & Friends Live from Lugano 2011

Now that Martha Argerich has all but abandoned the recording studio (and the solo recital platform) for chamber projects with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012

ULLMANN disappearing musics. solo I + II + III

Jakob Ullmann writes music that’s hardly there. Born 1958 in Freiberg, residual traces of Nono, Lachenmann and Cage meander around...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

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