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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

BEETHOVEN Piano Works of the Young Beethoven (Jos Van Immerseel)

Few keyboard players are able to match the Beethoven credentials of the Belgian conductor and fortepianist Jos van Immerseel, who...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020

JS BACH Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (Lang Lang)

Hearing Murray Perahia, András Schiff or Angela Hewitt in Bach’s Goldberg Variations is akin to absorbing a substantial literary work....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2020

Les Saisons Françaises

The first thing to say about this debut recording from the young London-based Russian duo of Anna Ovsyanikova and Julia...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2020

Makedonissimo (Simon Trpceski and friends)

Don’t be fooled by the playful title. Simon Trpčeski’s exploration of Macedonian folk music, born at the 2017 Ludwigsburg Festival...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2020

Love and Death (Navarra String Quartet)

The premise behind this album conjures up manifold possibilities, but the Navarra Quartet have devised an illuminating programme. Most perceptive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2020

STRAVINSKY Music for Violin and Piano (Monteiro & Santos)

This is a fine traversal of Stravinsky’s output for violin and piano from two of Portugal’s most distinguished chamber musicians....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020

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