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CONNER Riddle Songs

With Riddle Songs, Stef Connor has composed an album of songs setting Old English texts. Since no music survives from...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2021

The Complete Josef Lhevinne

It is a tragedy that Josef Lhevinne, indisputably one of the greatest pianists of the last century, recorded so little....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021

Ksenija Sidorova: Piazzolla Reflections

The sound of the bandoneón – penetrating, plaintive and pulsating with emotion – is the sound of the Argentine tango...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021

RZEWSKI Songs of Insurrection (Thomas Kotcheff)

A personal note: I heard bits and pieces of Frederic Rzewski’s Songs of Insurrection in progress while the composer was...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

PAGANINI Caprices (Ning Feng)

For me the litmus test with any recording of Paganini’s mighty ‘24’ is the ‘Trill’ Caprice (No 6), where a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2021

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Papillons. Etudes symphoniques (Andrei Gavrilov)

A pianist colleague likened the young Andrei Gavrilov’s fire-eating virtuosity to a state-of-the-art BMW without the driver. It’s true that...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

Benjamin Grosvenor: Liszt

An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Pastoral Symphony. Tempest Sonata (Ntokou & Argerich)

This recording arrived at the close of Beethoven’s anniversary year and features an unusual partnering of a piano sonata and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 4-6 (Boris Giltburg)

A cursory glance at a couple of catalogues purportedly maintaining lists of commercially available recordings reveals some 42 pianists, living...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH; BUSONI Goldberg Variations (Chiyan Wong)

Chiyan Wong, the Hong Kong-born pianist who turns 33 this year, is an instrumentalist of truly remarkable gifts. Most striking...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

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