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Norma Fisher at the BBC, Vol 2

Until last spring Norma Fisher was known to me mainly as one of the most sought-after piano teachers in the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019

Robert Casadesus: The Complete French Columbia Recordings

In the wake of Sony Classical’s massively comprehensive box-set devoted to Robert Casadesus’s American Columbia recordings (6/19), APR fleshes out...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. 24 Preludes (Gugnin)

The controversy surrounding the 1979 publication of Solomon Volkov’s Testimony, four years after the death of Dmitry Shostakovich in Moscow,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 20. Minuets (Volodos)

Is it possible to make Schubert too beautiful? To put it another way: where is the line between naturally beautiful...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019

D SCARLATTI 52 Keyboard Sonatas (Lucas Debargue)

With the bar for Scarlatti interpretation set as high as it is today by harpsichordists of the communicative depth and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

RAVEL Miroirs STRAVINSKY Firebird. Petrushka (Beatrice Rana)

Since her silver medal at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition, I’ve followed the career of Beatrice Rana with great interest....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019

Sandro Nebieridze Plays Rachmaninov and Prokofiev

The Harmonia Nova series, of which this is Vol 9, is dedicated to ‘young artists singled out for their exceptional...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas nos 4, 7 & 9 (Alexander Melnikov)

The second instalment of Melnikov’s Prokofiev sonatas covers a kaleidoscope of temperaments. From the sombre and brooding Fourth through the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019

F POTT A Room at the End of the Mind (Jeremy Filsell)

‘One of those composers who seldom tests boundaries, preferring to turn back in search of roads less taken’, is how...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019

MESSIAEN Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (Winpenny)

After composing La Transfiguration and attending its fraught premiere in Lisbon in 1968, Messiaen quite swiftly worked up into a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

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