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JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Casals Quartet)

How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2023

Krzysztof Meisinger: Mystique

I almost wish that Krzysztof Meisinger’s improvised Invocazione introducing Domeniconi’s popular Koyunbaba suite had opened his recital, so mysterious and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2023

Après un rêve - Belle Époque: Nights at the Piano (Emmanuel Despax)

This is a heartfelt tribute to the pianist’s late poet grandfather, whose fondness for the French belle époque repertoire is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

Yuja Wang - The Verbier Festival Debut Recital 2008

Yuja Wang first came to international attention in 2007 when she stood in for Martha Argerich in Boston. A few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Daniel Matejča; Solveig Steinthorsdottir)

Although Hilary Hahn’s DG disc devoted to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Recording of the Month in the August...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Piano Recital (Su Yeon Kim)

Listening to the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition online, I chanced upon a terrific account of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata in progress,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Transcendental Studies (Yunchan Lim)

This is, unquestionably, a great piano recording. In this young pianist’s hands you will hear one of the finest-ever performances...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

LISZT Consolations (Saskia Giorgini)

Listening to Saskia Giorgini’s fifth release on Pentatone, it’s easy to see how her career has inspired such enthusiasm. She...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023

CHOPIN Ballades Nos 2 &4. Scherzo No 4 (Anna Zassimova)

Having previously come across Anna Zassimova’s name only in connection with the Russian Georgy Catoire, whose works she has staunchly...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2023

BYRD My Ladye Nevells Booke (Pieter-Jan Belder)

There could hardly be a more fitting celebration of the Byrd anniversary than a complete recording of My Ladye Nevells...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

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