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OGDON Original Piano Music

John Ogdon considered composing an unfocused pastime and hobby in relation to his busy concert career but that didn’t stop...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 30, 31 & 62 (Ancelle)

Writing in these pages recently about Paul Lewis’s latest Haydn adventure (Harmonia Mundi, 5/18), Harriet Smith rightly reminds us that...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018

FAURÉ Barcarolles (Endres)

Michael Endres’s first recorded foray into Fauré (pun intended) stands out from the pack in several respects. In contrast to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

Aimi Kobayashi: Chopin and Liszt Recital

The ‘Funeral March’ Sonata immediately makes it clear why Aimi Kobayashi should have made it through to the final stage...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018

Norma Fisher at the BBC Vol 1

It was during my studies at Kiev Conservatory that I first came across Norma Fisher’s name as an outstanding piano...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018

Pina Napolitano: Brahms the Progressive

For her third Odradek CD release, Pina Napolitano presents an intriguing playlist. She opens with Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Hewitt)

The latest instalment in Angela Hewitt’s traversal of Beethoven’s piano sonatas – Vol 7, though not packaged as such –...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018

JS BACH Partitas BWV825-830 (Menno van Delft)

Proverbially, the clavichord is held to be the most expressive of all keyboard instruments because the player’s contact with the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018

ANTONIOU Complete Piano Works

Despite his prolific creative output and long-held prominence as the founder and conductor of important new music ensembles, Theodore Antoniou...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

METAMORPHOSES Trios for clarinet, viola and piano

‘Metamorphoses’: a curious name for an ensemble devoted to the rather limited repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, of which...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018

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