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Mit Humor (Matthieu Cognet)

A personal note: I first learnt about the New York-based French pianist Matthieu Cognet through our mutual pianist friend Fanny...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

Italian Inspirations (Alessio Bax)

The mesmerising Adagio of the Marcello-Bach Concerto was memorably recorded by Edwin Fischer in 1931. You rarely hear all three...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020

#Cellounlimited (Daniel Müller-Schott)

Daniel Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

Rachel Mahon: Canadian Organ Music

It is difficult to imagine a more impressive location for these four substantial organ works by Canadian composers of the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21 (Dina Ugorskaja)

I doubt if the teacher who once banned the 23-year-old me from playing Schubert’s last piano sonata because she thought...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2020

HUNDSNES Clavinatas Nos 1-7. Piano Sonata No 1 (Laura Mikkola)

The Norwegian Svein Hundsnes (b1951) has composed three symphonies, concertos, two string quartets and several other works, but until now...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Works for Piano Four Hands (Peter Hill & Benjamin Frith)

In an absorbing booklet essay, Peter Hill encourages us to take seriously Beethoven’s modest output for piano duet as a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020

JS BACH; BARTÓK Suites (Julien Libeer)

Julien Libeer’s Bach takes full advantage of the modern concert grand’s dynamic and timbral resources while keeping within stylistically acceptable...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

ALKAN Concerto for Solo Piano (Schaghajegh Nosrati)

Schaghajegh Nosrati (b1989, Bochum, Germany), a new name to me, is one of very few women pianists to have recorded...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020

'Tis too late to be wise (Kitgut Quartet)

Theatre tunes and viol fantasias by Purcell, Matthew Locke and John Blow with a Haydn quartet plonked in the middle...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2020

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