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Mahan Esfahani: Musique?

Doth Mahan Esfahani protest too much? Here we have a cohesive, effective, taut programme of 20th-century harpsichord works that builds...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

Johan Smith: Guitar Laureate

On paper, the 2019 GFA Competition winner Johan Smith’s recital programme looks unremarkable: a classic mix of old and new,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2020

RACHMANINOV Préludes, Études-Tableaux, Moments Musicaux (Sergei Babayan)

The Armenian artist Sergei Babayan is perhaps best known as Daniil Trifonov’s sometime teacher and mentor. It is presumably thanks...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2020

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 6, Visions fugutives (Vadym Kholodenko)

Following the five concertos (3/16, 4/19), which amply demonstrated Vadym Kholodenko’s Prokofievian credentials, the still youngish Ukrainian now moves to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2020

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Evgeny Samoyloff)

A small UK label with a recording made in November 2016 and December 2017 at the VS Popov Academy of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2020

HOWELLS Piano Music Vol 1 (Matthew Schellhorn)

Every item on this absorbing collection of piano music by Herbert Howells is a first recording. There are plenty of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2020

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Klavierstücke (Peter Orth)

Philadelphia-born Peter Orth, a pupil of Adele Marcus and Rudolf Serkin and laureate of the 1979 Naumburg Competition, has made...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Bagatelles (Paul Lewis)

What exactly constitutes a Beethoven bagatelle is a moot point, as witness the varied add-ons to the standard published sets...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2020

BARJANSKY Complete Piano Works, Vol 1 (Julia Severus)

This, I can confidently state, is the first appearance in these pages of Adolf Barjansky (or Barzhansky). Born in 1850...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2020

JS BACH Cello Suites 1-3 (arr guitar. Jeffrey McFadden)

For classical guitarists, Bach’s Cello Suites, like his Lute Suites and Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas, are a gift that...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2020

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