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Wilhelm Kempff: The Complete Polydor Recordings (1927-1936)

The latest in APR’s valuable series of Wilhelm Kempff reissues brings together all of his non-Beethoven electrical Polydor 78s. Some...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 6 (Howard Shelley)

With this sixth volume we reach the end of Howard Shelley’s journey through Mendelssohn’s solo piano music. And what a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022

MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)

Today it is difficult to imagine the ‘market saturation’ enjoyed by Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in the 19th century, an...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022

MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Piano (Nikolay Medvedev)

This is my first encounter with Nikolay Medvedev, a Russian pianist born in 1986, a graduate of the Gnessin Russian...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022

LISZT 'Death and Transfiguration' (Kenneth Hamilton)

You can think of this impressive release as a two-disc illustration of its title or simply as a pair of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022

LANGGAARD; SCRIABIN 'Towards the Flame - Eccentric Piano Works' (Gustav Piekut)

Gustav Piekut doubtless raised eyebrows through making his recorded debut with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Danacord, 2019), and a similarly questing...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022

BUXTEHUDE Organ Works, Vol 2 (Friedhelm Flamme)

With Bach, approaches to interpretation may be many and varied but there is some kind of established yardstick for such...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2022

BRAHMS Late Piano Pieces (Paul Lewis)

If a single word were to describe what pianists played in public during the 19th century, it might be ‘variety’....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Angela Hewitt)

Now that Angela Hewitt has concluded her Beethoven sonata cycle with two of its ‘biggest guns’, it appears that she...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

JS BACH 'Bach on the Rauwolf Lute' (Jakob Lindberg)

With time, a musical work takes on the character of a character. It’s played by players who, often aided by...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2022

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