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Resonance: Beethoven, Benjamin, Dowland, Josquin (Benjamin Hochman)

Benjamin Hochman stands out for both the acuity of his programming and the refinement of his interpretations. This typically thoughtful...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024

Sokolov plays Purcell & Mozart

The opening of Grigory Sokolov’s latest recorded recital takes me back to Horowitz’s 1986 Moscow recital (DG, 12/86), partly for...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2024

LISZT Années de pèlerinage (Roger Muraro)

Années de pèlerinage (‘Years of Pilgrimage’) is without parallel in the Romantic piano literature. Begun when Liszt was 22 years...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2024

DEBUSSY Complete Preludes for Solo Piano (Anna Tsybuleva)

Since her first prize at the 2015 Leeds Competition, Anna Tsybuleva has divided opinions. Her debut album of Fantasies (Champs...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2024

BYRD Organ Works (Pieter-Jan Belder)

As Jon Baxendale observes in his cogent booklet notes to this two-disc collection of Byrd’s keyboard music performed on the...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2024

Busoni & Liszt: The 1950s SPA recordings (Alfred Brendel)

Now well into his 90s, Brendel the essayist remains on compelling form. In a sharp series of thoughts about Busoni,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2024

Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms and Schubert

Alexandre Kantorow completes his survey of Brahms’s piano sonatas with a stunning release that stands up to its two widely...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 29 (Marc-André Hamelin)

Marc-André Hamelin launches into the Hammerklavier Sonata’s opening Allegro with both assertion and transparency. He intelligently scales his dynamics and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Matthew Barley: Light Stories

Harrowing is not a word one would normally associate with a solo cello recital, even one – as here –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH 'The Great Toccata' (Daniel Moult)

How many can recall their first encounter with JS Bach’s celebrated organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565? I...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2024

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