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Benjamin Alard: The Couperin Family

This is a live recording of a concert given by Benjamin Alard on February 1, 2020, as part of a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023

RACHMANINOV Études-Tableaux (Nikolai Lugansky)

The Études-tableaux were not made for performing or hearing as a cycle. They are too much for one half of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023

PROCTOR Virtuoso Piano Works (Tyler Hay)

Simon Proctor (b1959) is best known for music for rare instruments. His Concerto for Serpent (1987) featured at some of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023

NICOLAOU Etudes & Frames (Tamara Stefanovich)

At first one might describe Vassos Nicolaou’s 15 piano Études as elaborately detailed and structurally shipshape works that build upon...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

MOZART Sonatas & Fantasies (Elena Bashkirova)

Some of my favourite repertoire features in this all-Mozart programme from Russian-born, Israel-settled Elena Bashkirova. There is plenty to admire...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2023

MOMPOU Música callada (Stephen Hough)

Stephen Hough’s interest in Federico Mompou is longstanding, as evidenced by a 1998 album devoted to the Catalan composer’s music...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023

F MENDELSSOHN Das Jahr (Christina Bjørkøe)

With the (re-)discovery of women composers the hot topic de nos jours, it is quite mystifying that more pianists have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2023

MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas (Kenny Broberg)

Question: define the word ‘cheeky’. Answer: a person who (a) devotes their solo debut CD release to three of the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

JANÁCEK; SCHUBERT 'Soulmates' (Herbert Schuch)

This is the second time Herbert Schuch has paired Schubert and Janáček on record. He lifts the D899 Impromptus out...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

HOWELLS Piano Music, Vol 2 (Matthew Schellhorn)

Here’s another feast for admirers of Herbert Howells (1892-1983), a second volume of piano music marvellously played by Matthew Schellhorn,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023

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