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Angela Hewitt: Love Songs

You might want to buy this CD for the cover alone. It’s a close-up detail of John Singer Sargent’s wonderful...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021

Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions (Yannick Nézet-Séguin)

It is worth quoting the conductor-pianist’s thoughts on the genesis of this recording dedicated to his late teacher Anisia Campos...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Roman Rabinovich)

Roman Rabinovich follows up his earlier volume of Haydn’s piano sonatas (2/19) with this second instalment, once again responding with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2021

GRANADOS Goyescas (Viviana Lasaracina)

This was my introduction to Viviana Lasaracina, another outstanding talent from the studio of Benedetto Lupo. Quite frankly, at first...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2021

COLES. HOLST Piano Music (James Willshire)

The close academic and latterly informal relationship between Gustav Holst and Cecil Coles underpins this release of their piano music,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021

Kit Armstrong: The Visionaries of Piano Music

In a cogent and provocative essay introducing his recording of works by William Byrd and John Bull, pianist Kit Armstrong...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Op 109-111 (Sunwook Kim)

A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vols 7-9 (Boris Giltburg)

To mark Beethoven’s 2020 anniversary year, Boris Giltburg set himself the task of filming all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021

JS BACH Six Partitas (Mahan Esfahani)

For his recording of Bach’s Partitas, Mahan Esfahani uses a harpsichord built by the workshop of Jukka Ollikka in Prague,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021

Randall Goosby: Roots

Revisiting my notes on this first recording by the American violinist Randall Goosby, I find that the word I’ve scribbled...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2021

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