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GOTTSCHALK Art for Two

The Californian Arthur Gottschalk (b1952) – no relation, I think, to Louis Moreau Gottschalk – studied with Ross Lee Finney...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018

GARLAND The Landscape Scrolls

It was the early 1980s when I dropped in at Lou Harrison’s place on the California coast. I had met...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018

ANDERSON One at a time

Never mind that five of the nine works on this recording of solo instrumental music have lower-case titles. There is...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2018

Russian Émigré Composers: Prokofiev, Medtner, Grechaninov, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky

Given the title, it is surprising, to say the least, that not a single item on this disc was actually...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018

The Passinge Mesures: Music of the English virginalists

Two distinct personae emerge from Mahan Esfahani’s engaging foray into the English virginal tradition (with some possibly Welsh composers, too)....

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2018

Igor Levit: Life

Igor Levit likes to deal with big subjects, whether it’s late Beethoven or supreme Bach. Now he addresses something bigger...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018

CHOPIN; FAURÉ; SCRIABIN Impromptus (Katya Apekisheva)

Taking roughly a reverse chronology, Katya Apekisheva intersperses three pairs of Scriabin Impromptus with the six of Fauré and four...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018

Anna Fedorova: Four Fantasies

Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces (DiscAuvers, 2017) revealed Anna Fedorova to be a sensitive and conscientious interpreter, although a tad...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018

William Youn: Schumann, Schubert, Liszt

I’ve been enjoying William Youn’s way with Mozart’s keyboard sonatas and this latest recital is on a similar level. He...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018

SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas (Rondeau)

It is said that soon after Domenico Scarlatti’s arrival in Lisbon in November 1719, the King’s younger brother recommended a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2018

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