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ELGAR Organ Sonatas. Vesper Voluntaries. Nimrod (Tom Winpenny)

Tom Winpenny’s new recording joins a fairly crowded field of excellent surveys of Elgar’s organ music. For several years Thomas...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2022

DVORÁK Tone Pictures, Op 85 (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Dvořák’s 13 Poetic Tone Pictures (1889) have been recorded what is perhaps a surprising number of times. None of them...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2022

DEBUSSY Piano Duets (Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier)

The selling-point of this enterprisingly programmed Debussy album is a newly designed concert grand from Bösendorfer – the 280 VC...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2022

DEBUSSY Early and late piano pieces (Steven Osborne)

Steven Osborne’s new Hyperion recording of Debussy is a veritable feast, consisting of the most delicate and delectable dishes served...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2022

DEBUSSY Piano Music (Esther Birringer)

Esther Birringer’s instincts for colour and nuance work well in Debussy’s music. Her approach to rhythm sometimes proves problematic. In...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022

PAPAÏOANNOU 24 Préludes pour piano (Cyprien Katsaris)

This is the first in what promises to be a series of Greek piano music from Cyprien Katsaris, and very...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022

CHOPIN Mazurkas, Vol 1 (Peter Jablonski)

Peter Jablonski is no stranger to Chopin’s Mazurkas, having recorded the Opp 6, 24, 50 and 68 groups for a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Op 10 (Daniel Tong)

Pianist Daniel Tong first came to my attention in 2013 through his sensitive and cultured coupling of Schubert’s A major...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022

The Playhouse Sessions

Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike’s Alehouse Sessions have become something of a classical shibboleth – an after-hours musical secret that has...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022

TELEMANN Recorder Sonatas (Dan Laurin)

‘Long before I could try them out with a continuo player I was fascinated by the variety of ideas in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2022

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