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Rebecca Maurer: Haydn and his London disciples

The piano is a Broadwood from 1816, the two sonatas works composed during Haydn’s visits to London for such an...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019

Rupert Boyd: The Guitar

It may seem curious that of the 10 works (counting the Brouwer Estudios sencillos – ‘Simple Studies’ – as two,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019

Ars longa: Old and new music for Theorbo (Elizabeth Kenny)

At first glance, it is hard to imagine anything cheerful coming from a theorbo. It even looks like an instrument...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019

SCHUMANN Fantasie. Kreisleriana. Kinderszenen (Ponthus)

Listeners familiar with these oft-recorded works will notice that Marc Ponthus often favours faster and freer tempos than one commonly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

SCHUBERT Late Piano Works Vol 1 (Andrea Lucchesini)

The first volume in Andrea Lucchesini’s projected survey of Schubert’s late piano works cheats a bit by including the relatively...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

SCHNABEL Complete Works for Piano (Jenny Lin)

Until recently, my experience of Artur Schnabel as composer was limited to the stylistic disconnect of the cadenzas to his...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019

NICODÉ Ein Liebesleben, and other works (Simon Callaghan)

Surely you might be forgiven for mistaking one of the pieces from Op 6 of Jean Louis Nicodé (1853-1919), the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019

Silver-Garburg Piano Duo: Illumination

Incredibly, it took until 2016 for any two-piano team to make a commercial recording of Saint Saëns’s superb arrangement of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2019

JANÁCEK On an Overgrown Path. In the Mists (Zoltán Fejérvári)

Zoltán Fejérvári, a native of Budapest still in his early thirties, won the 2017 Montreal Competition and was a Borletti-Buitoni...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019

D'INDY Piano Sonata (Jean-Pierre Armengaud)

The ‘big late-Romantic French piano sonata’ championship essentially boasts two contenders: the Paul Dukas Sonata and Vincent d’Indy’s equally ambitious...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019

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