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Lucas Debargue: To music

Happy the young musician with a film-maker for a friend. At least if the film-maker is as talented – yet...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020

The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music

Clearly not one to do things by halves, Daniel-Ben Pienaar – whose releases already include the complete Beethoven sonatas and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020

Yuval Zorn: Landscapes

It’s not enough for Yuval Zorn to be one of today’s most distinctive symphonic and opera conductors; he’s also a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020

Rudolf Buchbinder: The Diabelli Project

Anton Diabelli, the pianist, composer, and publisher from near Salzburg, brought out Beethoven’s Op 120 in 1823 and the following...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020

Dmitry Shishkin: Concours de Genève, Breguet

With its relatively short duration, five-language notes, moody photographs and generous space allotted to sponsors (Breguet Watches of Switzerland, who...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2020

SWAYNE Stations of the Cross (Simon Nieminski)

For many organists the name of Giles Swayne became associated with their instrument with his Riff-Raff of 1983, which set...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D845, D894, D958 & D960 (Shai Wosner)

Of Shai Wosner’s 13 or so CDs, if my calculations are correct, four are solo recordings, and three of those...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020

SCHARWENKA Piano Music Vol 1 (Luís Pipa)

You have to hand it to Martin Anderson and his endlessly enterprising Toccata Classics label. Hardly a month passes without...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020

Martina Filjak: Light and Darkness

Martina Filjak is a Croatian pianist (b1978) who first came to public attention when she won the Gold Medal at...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020

JANÁCEK Piano Music (Thomas Adès)

One could spend time discussing why a composer of Thomas Adès’s prominence is compelled to record Janáček’s piano music, but...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020

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