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RACHMANINOV Chopin Variations. Song transcriptions (Georgijs Osokins)

The Latvian-born pianist Georgijs Osokins was one of six artists who, having failed to reach the finals of the 2015...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019

MOZART Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Peter Donohoe)

The second instalment of Peter Donohoe’s Mozart survey was recorded as recently as this March. He and Somm’s recording team...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, Book 1 (Piemontesi)

Perhaps if he’d lived today, Liszt would have contented himself with Instagram selfies alongside Raphael’s Lo Sposalizio and Michelangelo’s Il...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019

JANÁCEK Piano Works (Jan Bartos)

Jan Bartoš follows up his first two Supraphon releases respectively devoted to Mozart concertos (10/17) and Beethoven sonatas (A/18) with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

HENRIQUES Works for Piano and Violin & Piano

The Danish composer Fini Henriques (born Valdemar Fini Henriques, 1867-1940) is not nearly as well known today as he deserves....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019

HAYDN Symphonies (Trans. for solo piano by C Stegmann)

Carl David Stegmann (1751-1826) was a composer, conductor and tenor based mainly in northern and eastern Germany. Alongside his own...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019

HAYDN Seven Last Words of Christ of the Cross (Stavy)

The fact that the keyboard version of The Seven Last Words has come down to us in an arrangement not...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019

FRANCK Organ Works (Patrick; Challenger)

Two Englishmen playing César Franck on two English cathedral organs. You would have thought they would have much in common,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2019

BUSONI Piano Music Vol 11 (Harden)

Busoni’s music can on occasion remind me of that quip by Eduard Hanslick when he encountered Brahms’s Fourth Symphony for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Keith Jarrett)

This previously unreleased live performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 took place in March 1987, just one month after...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

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