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'The Young Schumann' (Charles Owen)

Charles Owen, professor of piano at the Guildhall and co-artistic director of the London Piano Festival, presents the latest addition...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2025

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Vol 7 (Barry Douglas)

One challenge for a piano virtuoso who tackles Schubert is that the composer’s piano style is determined by vocal and...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2025

KARG-ELERT Complete Saxophone Works (Raaf Hekkema)

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933), best known for his organ music, composed his Op 153 in 1929 following a five-year creative drought....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2025

GLASS Selected Etudes (Giusto Di Lallo)

In the increasingly saturated recording marketplace of Philip Glass’s 20 Etudes for solo piano, two contrasting and somewhat opposing schools...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

CAGE Winter Music

Each of the 20 unnumbered pages that make up John Cage’s Winter Music contains five systems notated on five bars....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2025

BUSONI Fantasia contrappuntistica. Chopin Variations. Sonatina prima & seconda. Bach transcriptions (Peter Donohoe)

‘Few composers have so determinedly avoided popularity as Busoni’, noted Bryce Morrison just over a decade ago (11/13). But is...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2025

Something So Transporting Bright

Collaboration has been key to The Kreutzer Quartet’s tireless promotion of chamber music repertoire for more than 30 years. As...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025

Le Mercure Galant

This latest release in the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series, featuring innovative young Dutch violinist Charlotte Spruit, takes its...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2025

'Der meint‘es treu!' Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon

This album seeks to conjure the atmosphere of the salons of Central Europe during the so-called Biedermeyer period, the early...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025

Bill & Friends

William Christie was 80 in December, and this release is a celebration of the fact by some of the fine...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2025

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