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SCARLATTI The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 6 (Carlo Grante)

Domenico Scarlatti stands in relation to his great Baroque era contemporaries Bach and Handel much as Chopin did to peers...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

Bertrand Chamayou: Good Night!

Bertrand Chamayou begins the essay to his new disc of berceuses and lullabies with the admission ‘I’m a night owl’....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20

Sarah Beth Briggs: The Austrian Connection

To my ears, Haydn’s ‘Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser’ Variations lose something in translation en route between the original string...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

ZIMMERMANN Complete works for piano (Eduardo Fernández)

Recent anniversaries have undoubtedly raised the profile of Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70). Stopping short of full maturity, his solo piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW20

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (William Youn)

William Youn first made an impression on me with his Mozart sonatas for Oehms; and in 2018 I much enjoyed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20

MOSCHELES Complete Piano Sonatas (Michele Bolla)

‘As a pianoforte player,’ the first edition of Grove’s Dictionary tells us, ‘Moscheles was distinguished by a crisp and incisive...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

MACMILLAN Organ Works (Stephen Farr)

This handsome new release brings together all of James MacMillan’s organ music to date, spanning some 36 years of composition...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020

LESCHETIZKY Morceaux (Tobias Bigger)

This is the first volume of an intended series devoted to the piano music of Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), best known...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Variations (Angela Hewitt)

On the cusp of completing her Beethoven sonata cycle for Hyperion, Angela Hewitt makes a detour of sorts with a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (arr for harp. Parker Ramsay )

The truncheon of the Bach police is becoming increasingly difficult to wave about. The pandemic has transformed the way that...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20

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