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ENESCU Piano Sonata No 3. Suite Op 18 (Saskia Giorgini)

Unlike his first two suites for piano, Enescu’s Op 18 is essentially a collection of individual, unrelated pieces brought together...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Paganini Variations (Nelson Goerner)

Given the warm reception accorded his 2009 Brahms B flat Concerto with Tadaaki Otaka and the NHK SO (7/18), it...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 9 (Jonathan Biss)

Amid the veritable blizzard of Beethoven recordings that has already begun in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of his birth...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

BACH; REGER Brandenburg Concertos (PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann)

Reger’s transcriptions for piano duet of the six Brandenburg Concertos date from the early 1900s. They were so well received,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

JS BACH Six Partitas (Angela Hewitt)

Critics and piano mavens will likely evaluate Angela Hewitt’s new 2018 recording of the Bach Partitas alongside her 1996/97 version....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

ALKAN 25 Preludes (Mark Viner)

After the outstanding recording by Paul Wee of Alkan’s Symphony and Concerto for solo piano in the November issue comes...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

Variety: The Art of Variation

Last album it was musical jokes. This time it’s the art of variation form. But while on paper ‘Variety’ may...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Alex Klein: 20th Century Oboe Sonatas

If instruments have characters, the oboe, surely, is among the most candid. In a personal note appended to the booklet...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2019

Diana Tishchenko: Strangers in paradise

When the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko won the 2018 Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris she was the indisputable winner....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Mischa & Lily Maisky: 20th Century Classics

The most interesting item here is a wild amalgam of folk-derived dance music and orchestral rabble-rousing from Tajikistan-born Benjamin Yusupov,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019

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