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Vanessa Benelli Mosell: Casta Diva

Looking back through the Gramophone archive, I see that this gifted Italian pianist (b1987) has been appearing on and off...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021

REICHA L'art de varier (Ivan Ilić)

Whether or not Antoine Reicha’s all-but-unknown L’art de varier, Op 57 (composed between 1802 and 1803) represents the proverbial missing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives. Piano Sonata No 8 (Nicholas Angelich)

Erato’s booklet essay quotes Poulenc’s admiring description of Prokofiev at the piano, which notes that ‘the tempo never, never varied’....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2021

LISZT Années de pèlerinage (Michele Campanella)

Throughout his career, Michele Campanella, the Neapolitan pianist now in his 74th year, has been identified with the music of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2021

HANDEL Suites pour clavecin (Pierre Hantai)

The booklet note for this release points out some interesting things about the trajectory of Handel’s ‘Eight Great’ harpsichord suites...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 8 'Appassionata' (Martin Roscoe)

With Vol 8, Martin Roscoe comes within spitting distance of completing his Beethoven sonata cycle; the ninth and final instalment...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

DVORAK, BARBER, COPLAND 'From the New World' (Hansjorg Albrecht)

The argument behind Hansjörg Albrecht’s latest release of transcriptions of famous orchestral works, which he dedicates to the memory of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2021

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Piotr Anderszewski)

Piotr Anderszewski here poses a most intriguing question: what happens when you take a group of 12 Preludes and Fugues...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2021

Dear Mademoiselle - A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) taught so many composers and musicians that a list of her pupils reads like a who’s who...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

STANFORD String Quintets & Intermezzi

If I might indulge myself for a moment, I remember the first time I encountered Stanford’s First String Quintet –...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

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