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Christoph Croisé: The Solo Album

Christoph Croisé gives an exceptionally free account of Kodály’s monumental Solo Sonata, applying rubato copiously throughout. It’s a somewhat risky...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021

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

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

Cyril Smith: Complete Solo Recordings

As APR’s note says, we tend to remember Cyril Smith (1909 74) as the pianist who overcame a stroke in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, Suisse (Charles Owen)

For his latest Avie release, British pianist Charles Owen has chosen the nine pieces comprising Liszt’s 1855 Swiss Année, delivering...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker 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

CHOPIN Four Scherzos; Etudes, Op 25 (Beatrice Rana)

In March 2019 Beatrice Rana had the New York press in raptures with her Carnegie Hall Chopin. I can see...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2021

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