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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1 & 4 (Martin Helmchen)

Having enjoyed the quietly confident artistry and musicianship of this team in the Second and Fifth Concertos (12/19), I looked...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2020

MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Sarah Connolly; Robert Dean Smith)

This is a performance of such distinction that regardless of one’s personal view of the piece – that is, exactly...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020

Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Vol 2

Like its predecessor (8/18), the second volume of Marston’s ‘Landmarks’ series teems with revelations and curios alike. It begins with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020

Mari Kodama: Kaleidoscope - Beethoven Transcriptions

It takes real thought to come up with something genuinely unusual in Beethoven year, so full marks to Mari Kodama...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2020

I Still Play

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that new music during the past 30 years or so would have taken...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020

SCHUMANN Waldszenen, Nachtstücke & Humoreske

The Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, a 2016 Borletti-Buitoni fellow and winner of the Montreal competition the following year, is a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2020

Finbarr Malafronte: Maestros of the Baroque

If you’re used to the brilliance of the harpsichord music of Rameau and Scarlatti on the instrument for which it...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020

Anna Paradiso plays Paradisi

The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, first published in London in 1754. Anna Paradiso misses...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2020

KABALEVSKY Complete Preludes (Michael Korstick)

Once upon a time Dmitry Kabalevsky enjoyed a place on the fourth pedestal of Soviet composers alongside Shostakovich, Prokofiev and...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020

COUPERIN Complete harpsichord works, Vol 2 (Bertrand Cuiller)

Normally, when I have a good feeling about a recording from an initial dip my admiration grows with repeated listening...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020

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