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RADULESCU Complete Piano Works (Ortwin Stürmer)

Although he never quite made the transition from cult artist to mainstream composer, Horaţiu Rădulescu (1942-2008) is widely regarded as...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019

Alexander Ullman: The Nutcracker, Petrushka, Cinderella

It’s just not fair. The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2019

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition RAVEL Miroirs (Donohoe)

If technicolour accounts of Mussorgsky’s Pictures are not your thing, and you wish the pianist wasn’t determined to make the...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2019

FRANCK Piano works (Michael Korstick)

On the surface, Michael Korstick’s interpretation of Franck’s Prélude, choral et fugue is a model of control and forethought, with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

Alexander Soares: Notations & Sketches

Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019

BOULANGER; FAURÉ; MESSIAEN Preludes Vol 3 (Alexandra Dariescu)

The UK-based Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu continues her survey of various prelude cycles with Fauré and Messiaen. It commences with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Six English Suites (Masaaki Suzuki)

Forkel’s pioneering biography of Bach may mention a suite ‘made for an Englishman of rank’, but that is where the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2019

Jayson Gillham: Romantic Bach

Jayson Gillham’s is the most enjoyable and worthwhile disc of hyphenated Bach since Hannes Minnaar’s (Cobra, 1/14) and Víkingur Ólafsson’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Kuusisto)

There are interesting aspects to this set, the first to strike me being the resonant acoustic of the Österåker Church...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019

Themes and Variations (Guy Johnston, Tom Poster)

It takes a particularly selfless kind of cellist to begin a recital with Beethoven’s Bei Männern Variations. Donald Tovey once...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

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