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Cordelia Williams: Nightlight

>It is sometimes said, only half-jokingly, that Schubert didn’t write for the piano, but against it. Even among the most...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

Anna Lapwood: Images

For her recital debut album on Signum Classics, Anna Lapwood has chosen an unusual programme that includes three transcriptions of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2021

Calum Huggan: American Music for Marimba

Percussionist Calum Huggan’s debut solo album, alongside displaying his technical chops and sensitivity, shows how open the marimba is for...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2021

YSAŸE Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op 27 (Jack Liebeck)

Yet another vividly colour-coded set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, music that seems to have sidled up alongside Bartók’s late...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

LUTYENS Piano Works, Vol 1 (Martin Jones)

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 83) is not noted for her piano music but wrote for the instrument throughout her career, and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 20, 34, 51 & 52 (Paul Lewis)

Paul Lewis’s second volume of Haydn sonatas features, like the first (which I reviewed in 5/18), four strikingly different characters....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021

DUTILLEUX Piano Works (Jean-Pierre Armengaud)

The Dutilleux discography having grown out of all proportion to his output says much for the esteem in which his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021

Anna Fedorova: Shaping Chopin

Chopin indicates his Op 18 as a Grande valse brillante, yet Anna Fedorova’s fussy detailing and unsettled basic pulse make...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

BOLCOM; CHOPIN 'Vers Le Silence' (Ran Dank)

A long list of international competition victories and performances grace the 39-year-old Israeli-born, American-based pianist Ran Dank’s résumé, not to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH Complete English Suites (Sophie Yates)

Sophie Yates is an artist who wears her immense erudition lightly. Listening to her, one encounters the composer’s voice, clothed...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

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