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FAURÉ Complete Piano Works (Laurent Wagschal)

Laurent Wagschal’s complete survey of Fauré’s solo piano works has much to recommend it. In contrast to the luminescent cool...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2025

FAURÉ Nocturnes (Theo Fouchenneret)

Thirty-year-old Théo Fouchenneret, a native of Nice, is a graduate of the conservatoires there and in Paris. His second recording...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025

Jiayan Sun: Busoni and his Muses

Here’s a well-balanced recital showcasing Busoni’s keyboard creativity as transcriber and original composer. Pianist Jiayan Sun opens with Busoni’s edition...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2025

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade BORTKIEWICZ Thousand and One Nights (Etsuko Hirose)

Here’s a lovely programme idea: Rimsky-Korsakov’s familiar Sheherazade – ‘Suite symphonique d’après “Mille et une nuits”’ – paired with Bortkiewicz’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2025

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 2 (Roberto Prosseda)

The interests of Italian pianist Roberto Prosseda are wide-ranging and his energies seemingly endless. Earlier in his career he discovered...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025

JS BACH Organ Works Vol 6 (Masaaki Suzuki)

In the latest instalment of his complete Bach survey, Masaaki Suzuki tackles the first 11 pieces from the so-called ‘Leipzig...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2025

A Gift for your Garden: Telemann, Handel, Graun, Oswald

Here’s a sweet concept for an album: a celebration of the passion for botany – not simply gardening, but an...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2025

Irène Duval: Fauré and Friends

Two names new to me – but, from this showing, names of whom we shall be hearing much more in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 1-5 (Cuarteto Casals)

While it’s true that Shostakovich’s first five quartets were all written between the Purges and Stalin’s death (from 1938 to...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2025

SCHUBERT String Quartet No 14 SCHIPHORST Sei gutes Muts ANDRE 7 Pieces for String Quartet

Schubert’s Death and the Maiden String Quartet, preceded by two new commissions written in response to it, one featuring recorder...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2025

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