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Magdalena Kožená: Nostalgia

On the face of it, the three composers represented on Magdalena Kožená’s latest album have next to nothing in common....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Filippo Gorini. Daniil Trifonov)

When we say Bach was a family man, what do we mean? Albums such as the ‘Alt-Bachisches Archiv’ from Cantus...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021

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

Anna Lapwood: Images

For her recital debut album on Signum Classics, Anna Lapwood has chosen an unusual programme that includes three transcriptions of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester 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

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

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

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