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Francisco Fullana: Bach's Long Shadow

Francisco Fullana is hardly the first young violinist to choose Bach for a debut solo album. But not everyone does...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2021

Tchaikovsky Plus One Vol 3 (Barry Douglas)

The third volume of Barry Douglas’s ‘Tchaikovsky Plus One’ series matches its predecessors (12/18, 12/19) for inspired programming and noble...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2021

Sebastian Knauer: The Mozart / Nyman Concert

Nyman and Mozart go back a long way. In the booklet notes to Sebastian Knauer’s ‘The Mozart/Nyman Concert’, Nyman recalls...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2021

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

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