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DEBUSSY Préludes - Books 1 & 2 (complete)

If you are looking for a reaction to Gieseking’s opalescent if often careless magic or to Krystian Zimerman’s crystalline alternative,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

Debussy_Solo Piano Music

Angela Hewitt was widely acclaimed for her recording of Ravel’s solo piano music a few years ago. Debussy, however, is...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

DEBUSSY Complete Works for Solo Piano

Debussy may have been a revolutionary but he was also the most deeply introspective of composers. Like Robert Graves in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

COUPERIN Works for Harpsichord

Go back to Blandine Verlet’s recordings of various Couperin Ordres from the late 1970s and you hear a distinct temperament...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2012

CHOPIN Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise. Etudes. Nocturnes. Waltzes

It was just a matter of time before the world’s most popular classical pianist devoted an entire CD to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

CAGE Music of Changes. Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

David Tudor’s dedication to Cage’s work at a crucial stage from the 1950s can only be described as saintly. He...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas

Harmonia Mundi must like Beethoven’s piano sonatas. As if Paul Lewis’s complete cycle wasn’t enough, the label now presents Javier...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2

Having recorded Bach’s core keyboard works during his contract with Decca in the 1980s, András Schiff began revisiting this repertoire...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas BWV1001-3

The only frustrating thing about this disc is how long Isabelle Faust (or maybe Harmonia Mundi) has made us wait...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill 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

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