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LESCHETIZKY Morceaux (Tobias Bigger)

This is the first volume of an intended series devoted to the piano music of Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), best known...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Variations (Angela Hewitt)

On the cusp of completing her Beethoven sonata cycle for Hyperion, Angela Hewitt makes a detour of sorts with a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (arr for harp. Parker Ramsay )

The truncheon of the Bach police is becoming increasingly difficult to wave about. The pandemic has transformed the way that...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20

Dana Zemtsov; Anna Fedorova: Silhouettes

Dana Zemtsov’s previous albums for this label (4/15, 9/15) confirm she is a sensitive and virtuoso player with a flair...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW20

Tabea Debus: Ohrwurm

Now aged 29, Tabea Debus is an alumna of several young professional artist schemes, and on one of her three...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW20

Il Genio Inglese

The slim slices of ‘bread’ that sandwich this debut album from Ground Floor (which, as much as I try to...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20

WEBER Clarinet Quintets (London Haydn Quartet. Weber Trio)

As Anton Stadler was to Mozart and Richard Mühlfeld was to Brahms, Heinrich Baermann was Carl Maria von Weber’s clarinet...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW20

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet. Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok

We used to see Shostakovich’s output discussed in terms of confessional chamber works and public symphonies, not that the division...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20

PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonatas (Natalia Prishepenko)

This thoughtful coupling, one that might have been expected to initiate a whole series of recordings from the two Russian-born,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20

MOZART String Quintets, K515 & 516 (Quator Van Kuijk; Adrien La Marca)

'He commands light and shade’, wrote Busoni about Mozart, ‘but his light never blinds, and his darkness still shows clear...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW20

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