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Una Bourne: Australian Recording Pioneer – HMV Recordings 1914-1926

To those names who, early on, represented Australian musical talent abroad, the soprano Nellie Melba (1861-1931) and pianist-composer Percy Grainger...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023

SPRATLAN Invasion - Music 'and Art for Ukraine'

Just as 9/11 prompted a wave of commemorative works, so is the Russian invasion of Ukraine now doing. Lewis Spratlan’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas K279-284 & 309 (Angela Hewitt)

With this double album of the first seven canonic sonatas, Angela Hewitt extends her foray into Mozart begun in 2011...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023

MACDOWELL Piano Sonatas 1 & 2. Woodland Sketches (Giorgio Trione Bartoli)

There seems to be no other recording currently available of this particular programme. All four of Edward MacDowell’s sonatas have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2023

LISZT Transcendental Études (Alim Beisembayev)

First impressions are important. While they do not always provide a definitive guide to what follows, they cannot help but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2023

HAYDN Keyboard Works, Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)

Hard on the heels of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s critically acclaimed intégrale comes Peter Donohoe’s two-disc album, the first volume presumably in...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2023

GLASS Études for Solo Piano, Book 1 (Vicky Chow)

Philip Glass’s first book of 10 Études may on the surface present little more than a stroll in the park...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2023

COELHO Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla, & harpa, Volume 1

Relatively few organists have explored the byways of early Iberian organ music, despite there being a goodly number of surviving...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023

Mari Kodama: New Paths

‘New Paths’ refers of course to the title of Robert Schumann’s essay in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in which...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2023

Orion Weiss: Arc II - Ravel; Brahms; Shostakovich

As with ‘Arc I’ (6/22), ‘Arc II’ showcases Orion Weiss’s imaginative programme-building and intelligent artistry. He’s obviously pondered over each...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

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