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Simone Dinnerstein: Undersong

The idea of a musical refrain (a recurring theme, chorus or ‘hook’) unifies the works on this album, making for...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022

Méditation. Les quatre saisons du luth (Simone Vallerotonda)

Italian lutenist Simone Vallerotonda, who admits philosophy ‘has been his passion and salvation’, shares with fellow gut-pluckers such as Lukas...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022

Peter Dickinson: Lockdown Blues

Although occasionally veering towards sobriety, the pianist, composer and critic Peter Dickinson, a fine musician with a wealth of experience,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022

JS Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation (Julien Libeer)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, with all its minor-key preludes...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2022

SCRIABIN Mazurkas (Andrey Gugnin)

Unlike his more numerous Preludes and less numerous Études, Scriabin’s Mazurkas are not spread evenly across his career, being concentrated...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2022

Michael Korstick plays The Essential Scarlatti

A great deal of care has gone into the creation of this two-disc Scarlatti recital. That’s evident from the detailed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (Valentina Lisitsa)

You will remember Valentina Lisitsa as the Ukrainian pianist who broke the mould by establishing an international career courtesy of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022

MEHMARI; VALE 'Brazilian Landscapes' (Mariama Alcântara)

Fans of Jascha Heifetz will have no trouble recognising Flausino Vale’s ‘Ao Pé da Fogueira’, the 15th of his Characteristic...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022

FELDMAN Late works for piano (Alfonso Gómez)

Feldman’s single-movement late works are monumental in length, culminating in the six hour-long Second String Quartet (find a comfortable seat...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 31 (Andreas Haefliger)

At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022

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