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HAYDN; SCHUBERT 'Live at Esterházy Palace' (Grigory Sokolov)

DG is making the most of its signing of Grigory Sokolov, one of the world’s greatest pianists and perhaps its...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022

GRANADOS; JANÁCEK; SCRIABIN 'Arc I' (Orion Weiss)

Orion Weiss approaches the oft-recorded Goyescas suite more as a classicist in line with recent versions from Garrick Ohlsson, Jean-Philippe...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2022

GNATTALI 'Moto Contínio' Piano Works (Luís Rabello)

Radamés Gnattali (1906‑88) is apparently a familiar name to virtually all Brazilian musicians, though less so perhaps to musicians in...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022

Valentina Lisitsa: Chopin

‘Do we know how Chopin ought to be played or do we just think we do?’ asks the Ukrainian-born pianist...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; MOZART 'Variations' (Simon Trpčeski)

Simon Trpčeski’s new Linn recording of masters of the variation is likely to inspire admiration and astonishment in equal measure....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH 'Bach from Lincoln' (Colin Walsh)

Unlike his earlier ‘JS Bach from Lincoln’ album (Priory, 11/18), Colin Walsh has avoided any of the big headline-grabbing works...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH Complete Cello Suites (Bruno Philippe)

‘I am convinced that honesty and faith in one’s ideas can result in a form of individuality’, claims the French...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (James Ehnes)

Last June I reviewed James Ehnes’s superb recordings of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas, recorded at his home over a few...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

The Saxophone Craze: Homage to Rudy Wiedoeft

A notable venture of the Covid pandemic was Jonathan Radford’s exploration of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ with Ashley Fripp, throwing a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

Between Two Worlds: Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland

Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters reflects, in its title at least, TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, the first of which, ‘Burnt...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

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