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Alexis Weissenberg plays Ravel, Schumann & Mussorgsky

Here, on a two-CD recital taken live from the Salzburg Festival, is Alexis Weissenberg in all his alternating brilliance and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns

Yevgeny Sudbin’s ultra-demanding recital is lovingly chosen to suggest a wealth of subtle inter-relationships. And, in an age of much...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

RAVEL Érard versus Steinway, ‘Compared’ Vol 1

Paolo Giacometti asks ‘authentic or modern?’ in his introductory notes. The pianist has made a career of playing the same...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

MOZART; CLEMENTI Piano works

Aldo Ciccolini, now an elder statesman of the piano, has for long been associated with the music of his adopted...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

LISZT Années de Pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie S161 (excs)

Those familiar with the lively acoustic of the (audibly empty) Wyastone Concert Hall will know what kind of piano sound...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

LISZT Piano Recital

A lyrical, rubato-laden and slightly shapeless Valse impromptu opens Vanessa Benelli Mosell’s Liszt recital. The pianism is impressively refined and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013

DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 2

The opening pages of Dohnányi’s Op 2 might well have been penned by Brahms in one of his jollier moods....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24

For many pianists there is a long-standing ambition to record a particular composer. For Mitsuko Uchida it was the complete...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

JS BACH Sonata for Solo Violin, BWV 1004. Fantasy BWV 562

Beecham’s adage that ‘a musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it’ needs to be revised,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2013

JS BACH Transcriptions for solo guitar

It was no surprise to learn that the young German guitarist Martin Hegel has attended masterclasses with David Russell and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2013

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