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Review of SCHUMANN Piano Works 'Einsam' (Nino Gvetadze)

SCHUMANN Piano Works 'Einsam' (Nino Gvetadze)

Now based in Amsterdam, Nino Gvetadze was born in Tbilisi and trained in her native Georgia before continuing her studies...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

Review of LISZT Schwanengesang. Valses oubliées ( Can Çakmur)

LISZT Schwanengesang. Valses oubliées ( Can Çakmur)

This is Can Çakmur’s second album for BIS. The 23-year-old Turkish pianist’s first, which included works by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, Haydn,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

Review of KODÁLY; LIGETI Sonatas for Solo Cello (Gabriel Schwabe)

KODÁLY; LIGETI Sonatas for Solo Cello (Gabriel Schwabe)

I feel sure that Gabriel Schwabe has the chops and musical intellect to give a great performance of Kodály’s Solo...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020

Review of DYSON "The Open Window" Complete music for piano (Simon Callaghan)

DYSON "The Open Window" Complete music for piano (Simon Callaghan)

The past quarter of a century has brought steady reappraisal of George Dyson (1883-1964), and while an extensive choral output...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020

Review of A-L COUPERIN Pièces de Clavecin (Christophe Rousset)

A-L COUPERIN Pièces de Clavecin (Christophe Rousset)

Armand-Louis Couperin was not the nephew of François Couperin, as is sometimes asserted in both historic and contemporary accounts of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2020

Review of CHOPIN Piano Works, Vol 6 (Louis Lortie)

CHOPIN Piano Works, Vol 6 (Louis Lortie)

A decade after the start of his Chopin series, for its sixth volume Louis Lortie offers another carefully arranged bouquet,...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2020

Review of BALAKIREV Complete Piano Works, Vol 6 - Islamey and Beyond (Nicholas Walker)

BALAKIREV Complete Piano Works, Vol 6 - Islamey and Beyond (Nicholas Walker)

So the journey ends. A project that began back in 1994 has finally reached its conclusion with this sixth volume....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

Review of Tabea Zimmermann: Solo II

Tabea Zimmermann: Solo II

It was in 2009 that Tabea Zimmermann released the first two of Bach’s Solo Cello Suites alongside Reger’s three on...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2020

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (Smetana Trio; Trio Sōra)

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (Smetana Trio; Trio Sōra)

When Beethoven decided in 1795 to announce himself to his adopted Vienna as a published composer, it was not with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020

Review of Nathan Meltzer: To Roman Totenberg

Nathan Meltzer: To Roman Totenberg

There’s every likelihood, were it not for his being highlighted as Gramophone’s One to Watch in the November issue, that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020


 

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