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Ekele: Piano Music by African Composers

There is a strong Nigerian theme running through this enterprising programme: Theophilus Ayoola ‘Ayo’ Bankole (1935 76) and Christian Onyeji...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

Carlo Zecchi: The Complete Cetra Recordings, 1937-1942

Carlo Zecchi (1903 84): Italian pianist; brief but spectacular career between the wars; abandoned keyboard for the podium 1942; two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2018

Orlando Bass: Piano Modern Recital, Vol 2

This CD is hardly ‘modern’ (its repertoire goes back to 1909) and nor is it a ‘recital’ in the sense...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2018

Alexandra Dariescu: The Nutcracker and I

The original idea, from which this CD and its illustrated booklet is a spin-off, was a multi-sensory project bringing together...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2018

SUK Piano Music (Plowright)

This disc of early piano music offers a different side from Suk the maximalist, with works such as Asrael and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018

RAMEAU Complete Solo Keyboard Works (Steven Devine)

The three individual volumes encompassing Steven Devine’s complete Rameau survey were originally available only in download format. Resonus has now...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2018

LISZT Années de pèlerinage - Suisse (Piemontesi)

The Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, now in his mid-thirties, is quietly carving out an impressive career for himself and this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018

GALILEI Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto (Axel Wolf)

A keen continuo player and chamber musician, lutenist Axel Wolf’s previous recordings include music by JS Bach, Handel, Hasse and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2018

DEBUSSY Préludes, Book 2. La Mer (Melnikov)

Érard pianos from either side of 1900 seem to have survived the ageing process rather well, at least to the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2018

Nelson Goerner plays Debussy

This disc was originally released on Zig Zag Territoires, and it has been a great pleasure returning to it, thanks...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2018

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