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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D537; 959 (Garrick Ohlsson)

This is quite an inspired pairing, even if it risks giving you the mother of all earworms after hearing one...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Volume 6 (Peter Donohoe)

Peter Donohoe launched his Mozartian labour of love a little over four years ago (4/19) and completes it with a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

LITOLFF Piano Music, Vol 1 (Tingyue Jiang)

Very little of Litolff’s music has appeared on record – surprising for a pianist-composer who in his day (1818 91)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

JONGEN 13 Preludes. 24 Petits Preludes Dans Tous Les Tons (Ivan Ilić)

Most people, I suppose, associate the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) with organ music, most notably his wonderful Sinfonia concertante...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

FRESCOBALDI Fiori Musicali (Richard Lester)

I read in three reference sources – none written in the last 40 years – that Fiori musicali (‘Musical Flowers’)...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2023

Rafał Blechacz: Chopin

Given his extraordinary gifts, the Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz (now 37 years old) manages to keep an extraordinarily low profile....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

BRUCKNER The Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions), Vol 5 (Hansjörg Albrecht)

By 2024 Hansjörg Albrecht plans to have finished recording the first complete set of Bruckner’s 10 symphonies in organ arrangements,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2023

Benjamin Grosvenor: Schumann & Brahms

In her excellent booklet notes, Katy Hamilton quotes Clara Wieck (still Robert Schumann’s fiancée) on Kreisleriana: ‘Sometimes your music actually...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2023

BOWEN; MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Works for two pianos (Moog, Adomeit)

Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are so well matched that you can hardly tell the pianists apart. In the opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

Mirrored in Time

This is an intelligently planned, finely played album for trombone and string quartet, part recital of contemporary music, part hypothesis...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

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