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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

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Pablo Suarez Calero)

Competition in recordings of Bach’s solo violin music is strong and plentiful, and one might be forgiven for thinking Pablo...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023

Bach's Missing Pages (Sietze de Vries)

For Albert Schweitzer the Orgelbüchlein was ‘The Bible of Bach’. For Russell Stinson it is ‘simultaneously a compositional treatise, a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2023

CPE BACH Württemberg Sonatas (Keith Jarrett)

Keith Jarrett needs no introduction as an interpreter of JS Bach, but the affective world of Carl Philipp Emanuel is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

Music For A New Century

As album titles go, ‘Music for a New Century’ offers a varied if somewhat uneven snapshot of new music composed...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2023

Mozart’s Mannheim; SCHMITTBAUR Symphonies (Ehrhardt)

The historically valuable DG ‘Mozart’s Mannheim’ release arrives swathed in a robe of academic authority. ‘Mozart’s correspondence reveals how he...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

Christian Li: Discovering Mendelssohn

I missed Christian Li’s debut album for Decca (he became the label’s youngest-ever signing in 2020), warmly welcomed by Mark...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

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