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BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 2 CPE BACH Symphonies (Forck)

I approached these performances with some trepidation, as the lovely promise shown in the opening movements of the Akademie für...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4. Overtures (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Here we are: instalment three of a series that so far has been one of the finest ornaments of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020

BRITTEN Peter Grimes (Gardner)

You could now round up more than a baker’s dozen recorded versions officially released of Grimes in all formats, visual...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2020

Jorge Federico Osorio: The French Album

I confess that before this I had not encountered Jorge Federico Osorio (born Mexico, 1951) but on this hearing I...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2020

Igor Levit: Encounter

Bach meets Brahms, with Busoni and Reger as enablers, and they all meet Feldman thanks to Igor Levit. The chorale...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2020

RAVEL Piano Music (Ann Martin-Davis)

Ann Martin-Davis’s new disc of Ravel, subtitled ‘The Language of Flowers’, is anchored by the Valses nobles et sentimentales and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020

LISZT; THALBERG Opera transciptions and fantasies (Marc-André Hamelin)

If I were allowed a two-word review of this disc, it would read as follows: buy it. But then, as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2020

DOWLAND A Fancy: Lute music (Bor Zuljan)

‘Melancholy struck Elizabethan England like an epidemic’, writes lutenist Bor Zuljan. Words, as it’s turned out, perfect for our own...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2020

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3. Mazurkas (Lukas Geniušas)

I was blown away by Lukas Geniušas’s fantastical storytelling in his Prokofiev recording (4/19). For his new all-Chopin programme, my...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2020

Holger Groschopp: Early Busoni

Here are all of Ferruccio Busoni’s published piano pieces dating from his 11th through 17th years. The legendary pianist/composer may...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2020

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