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Alexandre Tharaud: Versailles

Alexandre Tharaud loves a themed disc and ‘Versailles’ is a typically personal exploration of the glories of the French Baroque...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2020

The Art of Variation (Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi)

Here is a programme that would rarely (never?) be presented in the concert hall, one specifically tailored to the medium...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

TRUSCOTT Piano Sonatas (Peter Jacobs)

Harold Truscott (1914 92) is a telling example of a composer little appreciated in his lifetime and barely more so...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY Solo Piano Works (Peter Donohoe)

Russian and Soviet music and culture run like a river through Peter Donohoe’s distinguished career. His joint silver medal at...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

SWEELINCK Fantasias, Toccatas & Variations (Richard Egarr)

Despite his enormous influence on Dutch and north German music, especially the composers Bach would study in his youth, Jan...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Vols 1 & 2 (Llŷr Williams)

Llŷr Williams’s first commercial disc – an all-Chopin selection including the Preludes – Quartz, 8/06) – received quite harsh criticism...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2020

RACHMANINOV; STRAVINSKY Piano Works (Karine Poghosyan)

The powerful, impassioned pianism displayed in the Armenian-American pianist Kariné Poghosyan’s all-Khachaturian solo debut CD (Grand Piano, 2015) remains evident...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 6-8 (Steven Osborne)

Steven Osborne’s assured mastery in a wide range of repertoire continues to expand and amaze. At first hearing, the pianist...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020

KHACHATURIAN Piano Works (Iyad Sughayer)

Apart from the ubiquitous Toccata and the Piano Concerto, championed and first recorded by William Kapell with Koussevitzky and the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2020

Anna Fedorova: Storyteller

After her selection of fantasies on her previous Channel Classics disc (11/18), the Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova here moves to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2020

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