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Chopin's Epoque: Piano Works By Gutmann, Filtsch, Mikuli, Fontan, Rothschild & Tellefsen

So all-embracing was Chopin’s influence on piano composition that few composers writing in the idiom (rather than that of Schumann,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

Hopkinson Smith: Bright & Early

If anything, ‘late style’ is more about a renewed sense of freedom, of expanded possibilities, of a more capacious creativity,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2023

Romeo & Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano (Yevgeny Sudbin)

It must have been quite a headache for BIS to come up with a title for Yevgeny Sudbin’s latest album....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2023

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D537; 959 (Garrick Ohlsson)

This is quite an inspired pairing, even if it risks giving you the mother of all earworms after hearing one...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Volume 6 (Peter Donohoe)

Peter Donohoe launched his Mozartian labour of love a little over four years ago (4/19) and completes it with a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

LITOLFF Piano Music, Vol 1 (Tingyue Jiang)

Very little of Litolff’s music has appeared on record – surprising for a pianist-composer who in his day (1818 91)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

JONGEN 13 Preludes. 24 Petits Preludes Dans Tous Les Tons (Ivan Ilić)

Most people, I suppose, associate the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) with organ music, most notably his wonderful Sinfonia concertante...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

FRESCOBALDI Fiori Musicali (Richard Lester)

I read in three reference sources – none written in the last 40 years – that Fiori musicali (‘Musical Flowers’)...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2023

Rafał Blechacz: Chopin

Given his extraordinary gifts, the Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz (now 37 years old) manages to keep an extraordinarily low profile....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

BRUCKNER The Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions), Vol 5 (Hansjörg Albrecht)

By 2024 Hansjörg Albrecht plans to have finished recording the first complete set of Bruckner’s 10 symphonies in organ arrangements,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2023

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