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DEBUSSY Études MESSIAEN Fauvettes de l’Hérault (Roger Muraro)

The warm and mellifluous sound enveloping Javier Perianes’s coupling of Préludes Book 1 and Estampes is much in keeping with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019

Lilit Grigoryan: Variations Serieuses

The Armenian pianist Lilit Grigoryan’s 2012 solo release containing sonatas by Scarlatti, Schumann and Bartók essentially revealed a highly capable...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2019

Belle Époque (Berlinskaya & Ancelle)

In the March 2017 issue it was a pleasure to give a warm welcome to a recital from this husband-and-wife...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

SCHUBERT Piano Music (Leon McCawley)

Listening to some of the more self-indulgent of Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert’s most profound songs on this disc, I cannot...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2019

Carlo Grante plays Schubert

For this disc, recorded in Vienna in 2013, Carlo Grante chose a superbly maintained 1923 Bösendorfer Imperial, loaned by Eva...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

PADEREWSKI; SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works (Radosław Sobczak)

These two anthologies of Szymanowski’s and Paderewski’s piano music arrived just in time for the centenary of Poland’s independence, celebrated...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2019

LISZT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Kinderszenen (Joseph-Maurice Weder)

First impressions: a Liszt Sonata running to 33'19" – a bit on the slow side. Likewise Kinderszenen at 21'30". And...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2019

Vanessa Wagner: Liszt, Pärt

In the booklet interview, Vanessa Wagner says that she long avoided Liszt for, among other things, his extroversion, brilliance and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

FRANCK The Organ Works (Ben van Oosten)

When most recorded versions of Franck’s organ music cover two discs, we might question why Ben van Oosten takes four....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018

Bertrand Cuiller: Couperin l’Alchimiste

With this two-disc set, Bertrand Cuiller launches a new complete cycle of the solo harpsichord works of François Couperin that...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2019

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