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BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust (Nelson)

Two years on from their blockbusting, Award-winning Les Troyens (12/17), could John Nelson’s team repeat their Strasbourg success with La...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Music (Martino Tirimo)

To the best of my knowledge, Martino Tirimo is the fourth pianist to have recorded Beethoven’s complete solo piano music,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

Benjamin Moser: Pictures and Songs

Benjamin Moser, born in Munich in 1981, serial competition entrant (fifth prize at the 2007 Tchaikovsky), student of Dmitri Bashkirov...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Plus One, Vol 2 (Barry Douglas)

Barry Douglas continues his ‘personal salute … to great masterworks of the Russian repertoire’ after a first volume that paired...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas (Vincenzo Maltempo)

‘Be careful with Scriabin’s music; don’t go too far or you might end up losing your sanity.’ So a teacher...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2019

SCHUBERT Late Piano Sonatas (Francesco Piemontesi)

Francesco Piemontesi presents here Schubert’s last three sonatas, all recorded in February 2018 in the same Swiss venue, though the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2019

SCARLATTI Sonatas Vol 6 (Pierre Hantaï)

Who could complain that Pierre Hantaï is taking his time to roam among Scarlatti’s sonatas – 26 years after the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019

RIPPE Un Perfaict Sonneur de Leut (Paul O'Dette)

The Italian Renaissance lutenist/composer Albert de Rippe’s playing may or may not have had the power, as was said, to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2019

PROKOFIEV Vision fugitives (Florian Noack)

I first became acquainted with Florian Noack’s gifts for lyricism and sensitivity through several Lyapunov discs released by ARS Produktion...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

LISZT Piano Sonata. 2 Legendes (Joseph Moog)

Joseph Moog has one of those techniques that most pianists only dream about. His passagework fairly shimmers with prodigious effortlessness...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

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