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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

BARJANSKY Piano Music, Vol 2 (Julia Severus)

Julia Severus introduced Adolf Barjansky (1851-1900) to these pages in September 2020 with her first volume of premiere recordings. That...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 1 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Technically, this album is difficult to fault. Frank Peter Zimmermann’s playing of the Preludio of Bach’s Partita No 3 in...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2022

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Jean Rondeau)

Jean Rondeau’s Goldberg Variations clocks in at 107 minutes, observing all the repeats, including those in the Aria da capo....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022

Pohádka: Tales From Prague To Budapest

The idea for this disc arose from these performers’ shared love of Janáček’s music. Laura van der Heijden – 2012’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

Origines & Departs: French Music For Clarinet & Piano

Principal clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martín joins forces with pianist Scott Mitchell for what is more or...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

SIBELIUS Works for Violin & Piano (Fenella Humphreys)

Fenella Humphreys conveyed tangible identity with Sibelius through her recent accounts of the Violin Concerto and all six Humoresques (8/21),...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022

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