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Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Vol 3

This third festival of (mainly) hiss-and-crackle rarities is a very mixed bag indeed. Only the most curious pianophiles need apply....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2024

VISÉE Theorbo Solos (Jakob Lindberg)

Robert de Visée was the foremost guitarist and lutenist at the court of Louis XIV and a member of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2024

SEABOURNE My Song in October

During the almost quarter-century since Peter Seabourne (b1960) made his belated return to composition, the Steps piano cycle has grown...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT; KRENEK Piano Works (Can Çakmur)

Schubert’s 1825 Sonata in C, D840, was left in tatters: the first two movements are complete, but there’s a hole...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT; DESYATNIKOV Works for Piano Duet

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who have lived and played together since student days, have released a conceptually tantalising album...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024

Julius Asal - Scriabin, Scarlatti

There is a lot going for the pairing of Scriabin and Scarlatti, and this DG debut album is nothing if...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2024

REGER Bach Variations. Träume am Kamin (Eden Walker)

Eden Walker, a British pianist based in Hamburg, has chosen Max Reger for what is apparently his debut recording. The...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024

Piano Dances: Ravel; Shostakovich; Widmann (Anna Vinnitskaya)

Anna Vinnitskaya’s ‘Piano Dances’ uses Ravel’s two large-scale ‘Valse’ pieces to bookend a pair of stylised dance-based groups of miniatures...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

DEBUSSY Images: Piano Works (Saskia Giorgini)

Saskia Giorgini, of Dutch and Italian heritage, has just released her first album of Debussy which, in terms of secure...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024

Mikhail Pletnev: Brahms, Chopin, Shor

The Brahms Op 117 Intermezzos that lead off Mikhail Pletnev’s excellently engineered 2023 Berlin recital reveal the pianist’s colouristic gifts...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

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