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CHOPIN; FAURÉ Impromptus (Ismaël Margain)

I was excited to hear this programme, not least because the Fauré Impromptus get out far less often than they...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023

CHASINS Complete Music For Piano Solo (Margarita Glebov)

Leopold Godowsky once bumped into the young Abram Chasins. ‘Is it true’, he asked, ‘that your Rush Hour in Hong...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Variations, Vol 1 (Cédric Tiberghien)

Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023

Camille El Bacha: Lumen

More and more classically trained pianists are embracing improvisation and composition, including Camille El Bacha, whose solo piano release ‘Lumen’...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023

Obscurus

Lucy Humphris’s debut album (her only previous recording – as far as – I can determine – being Cecilia McDowall’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023

Impressions d'enfance

Franco-Romanian violinist Sarah Nemtanu, leader of the Orchestre National de France as well as a fine soloist in her own...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023

Golden Oldies: More Favourite Encores (Brodsky Quartet)

Every string quartetter, amateur or pro, knows the problem of finding appropriate encore pieces, and every quartet has its own...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023

WALTER String Quartet. Piano Quintet

‘Dissonance wants to become consonance, it longs to be undone’, according to Bruno Walter, and in his own music it...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023

In Celebration: The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman

Guitarist/composer Stanley Silverman (b1938) has had a remarkable career. A student of Milhaud and Leon Kirchner, he was highly in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Works (Cecilia Zilliacus)

The word here is ‘fearless’. You may not have expected to see the words fearless and Saint-Saëns in the same...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 05/2023

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