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NICOLAOU Etudes & Frames (Tamara Stefanovich)

At first one might describe Vassos Nicolaou’s 15 piano Études as elaborately detailed and structurally shipshape works that build upon...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

MOZART Sonatas & Fantasies (Elena Bashkirova)

Some of my favourite repertoire features in this all-Mozart programme from Russian-born, Israel-settled Elena Bashkirova. There is plenty to admire...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2023

MOMPOU Música callada (Stephen Hough)

Stephen Hough’s interest in Federico Mompou is longstanding, as evidenced by a 1998 album devoted to the Catalan composer’s music...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023

F MENDELSSOHN Das Jahr (Christina Bjørkøe)

With the (re-)discovery of women composers the hot topic de nos jours, it is quite mystifying that more pianists have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2023

MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas (Kenny Broberg)

Question: define the word ‘cheeky’. Answer: a person who (a) devotes their solo debut CD release to three of the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

JANÁCEK; SCHUBERT 'Soulmates' (Herbert Schuch)

This is the second time Herbert Schuch has paired Schubert and Janáček on record. He lifts the D899 Impromptus out...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

HOWELLS Piano Music, Vol 2 (Matthew Schellhorn)

Here’s another feast for admirers of Herbert Howells (1892-1983), a second volume of piano music marvellously played by Matthew Schellhorn,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023

HENSELT Complete Études and Préambules (Daniel Grimwood)

Considering how germane Adolf von Henselt is to the literature and history of the piano, reviews of his music make...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2023

DUKAS Complete Piano Music (Vincenzo Maltempo)

Dukas’s high-minded fin de siècle Piano Sonata is a series of paradoxes. It’s the culmination of the 19th century’s ‘grand...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023

CHOPIN; SCRIABIN 'Puzzle' (Sophie Pacini)

‘I have combined pieces which have accompanied and reassured me in seemingly small, but ultimately crucial moments of my life’,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

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