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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

Whether or not Daniel-Ben Pienaar intends for you to proceed through his Schubert sonata cycle’s five discs in sucession, the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021

JOSQUIN DES PREZ Inviolata (Jacob Heringman)

Jacob Heringman issued his first disc of Josquin intabulations back in 2003 and he has since included Josquin intabulations on...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 3 (Leon McCawley)

Leon McCawley’s Haydn series on Somm, begun in 2016, has reached its third instalment with six sonatas dating from 1767-84....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021

Mary Dullea: Persian Autumn

How refreshing to have Iran and Iranians associated with something other than negative news. (Persian is actually an exonym –...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2021

CHOPIN Ballades. Nocturnes (Lara Melda)

The British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda first came to prominence as Lara Melda Ömerog˘lu when she won the BBC Young Musician...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021

Behzod Abduraimov: Debussy - Chopin - Mussorgsky

From Behzod Abduraimov’s recent Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody on the Russian composer’s own piano (Sony, 5/20), it was clear that this...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2021

BOWEN Fragments from Hans Andersen (Nicolas Namoradze)

I don’t know the genesis of this recording. Sometimes a label like Hyperion will find some interesting and/or unfamiliar repertoire...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 101, 109 & 111 (Nikolai Lugansky)

It has been a good few years since Nikolai Lugansky last released any Beethoven and he avoids the usual last...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021

JS BACH Little Books (Francesco Corti)

Harpsichordist, organist and conductor Francesco Corti is a native of Arezzo and now teaches at the Basel Schola Cantorum. Despite...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021

Songs of Comfort and Hope (Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott)

When Covid-19 hit the US hard in the first months of 2020 and lockdowns began to be imposed in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

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