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MOZART Sonatas For Piano Four Hands (Rados & Gerstein)

This has to be the CD equivalent of hygge. Russian-born American pianist Kirill Gerstein’s Mozart dialogue with his octogenarian mentor...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2021

MOSZKOWSKI Piano Works, Vol 1 (Ian Hobson)

‘If I pass him by, who will praise Moritz Moszkowski?’ asked JB Priestley in Delight, his life-affirming collection of essays...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2021

LISZT Complete Soirees de Vienne (Alberto Ferro)

Today, when Schubert’s canonic status in Western music has been long established, it is easily forgotten that his true measure...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2021

CHOPIN Preludes. Andante Spianato. Grande Polonaise Brillante (Charles Richard-Hamelin)

It is not always a good sign that, when listening to a new recording of familiar music for review purposes,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2021

BRAHMS 7 Fantasies Op 116. 2 Rhapsodies Op 79 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 (Elena Fischer-Dieskau)

In the booklet Elena Fischer-Dieskau’s biography coyly says she was ‘born into a family of musicians’, which hardly sums up...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2021

BRAHMS Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Rhapsodies Op 79 (Garrick Ohlsson)

Garrick Ohlsson’s previous Hyperion Brahms disc (1/19) provoked much the same reaction in me as it did for Harriet Smith...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29. Eroica Variations (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

Perhaps the biggest challenge of the Hammerklavier is the sheer multiplicity of its challenges: stamina and agility, both physical and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2021

Voyage of a sea-god (Laurence Perkins)

Performer, teacher and promoter – Laurence Perkins was ideally placed to have created this anthology with ‘the bassoon leading a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2021

Nostalgic Russia

Hideko Udagawa’s second contribution to Northern Flowers’ ‘St Petersburg Musical Archive’ series is a similar compilation of shorter collections and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2021

The King's Alchemist: British String Trios (Eblana String Trio)

Finzi dedicated the 1938 Prelude and Fugue for string trio to his counterpoint teacher RO Morris (1886-1948), the last of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2021

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