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Lika Bibileishvili

Here is a debut disc from a pianist whose biography does not feature any gold medals or prizes from international...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018

SCARLATTI Soanats Vol 1 (Federico Colli)

Federico Colli made a splash when he won the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, as much for his red cravat...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018

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

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