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Review of David Hill: From the Ground Up

David Hill: From the Ground Up

How impoverished the organist’s repertory would be without that humble but ever so effective musical form, the Passacaglia. From the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020

Review of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Beyond Perfection

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Beyond Perfection

In 1992 Dag Freyer and the late Syrthos J Dreher set out to make a film about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

Review of Anthony Romaniuk: Bells

Anthony Romaniuk: Bells

Playlist culture dominates today’s piano scene, with more and more artists favouring thematic or conceptual programmes from short stand-alone pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

Review of Magda Tagliaferro: The complete 78-rpm solo and concerto recordings

Magda Tagliaferro: The complete 78-rpm solo and concerto recordings

I heard Magda Tagliaferro only once: she played at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park at the conclusion of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (Boris Bloch)

TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (Boris Bloch)

Here is a curious curate’s egg. The recording is based on the concert Boris Bloch gave on the occasion of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2020

Review of SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 5 (Barry Douglas)

SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 5 (Barry Douglas)

Reviewers often resort to the cliché ‘granitic’ when describing an interpretation that pursues a direct, unswerving course and conveys an...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

Review of Ondřej Vrabec: British Music for Horn

Ondřej Vrabec: British Music for Horn

Peter Seabourne (b1960) studied with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, and an entire disc of music...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020

Review of HAYDN Eight Early Sonatas (Tuija Hakkila)

HAYDN Eight Early Sonatas (Tuija Hakkila)

The music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his treatise on keyboard-playing were essential to Haydn’s musical education, and one...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2020

Review of CRUMB Metamorphoses, Book I (Marcantonio Barone)

CRUMB Metamorphoses, Book I (Marcantonio Barone)

George Crumb’s 1972/73 Makrokosmos Books 1 and 2 made innovative use of amplification and extended piano techniques both inside and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 1-3 (Boris Giltburg)

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 1-3 (Boris Giltburg)

My introduction to Boris Giltburg was in November 2014, when he appeared with the Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop playing...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020

 

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