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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
Telemann's Garden
In conversation with the New York Times in 2008, Alan Gilbert remarked that just ‘because you can give a title...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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