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DEBUSSY La Mer STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring (Solo Piano)

Behold Debussy’s La mer and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: two landmark 20th-century scores that changed the veneer of orchestration,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

MESSIAEN; DEBUSSY Préludes

Célimène Daudet is a sensitive and evocative French pianist, trained at the conservatoires of Aix-en-Provence, Lyon and Paris, with a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

COUPERIN Dances from the Bauyn Manuscript

For his latest Hyperion release, the immensely talented Pavel Kolesnikov has taken up an extraordinarily daunting challenge. In his decision...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

CHOPIN 'Ghosts'

Nino Gvetadze, a new name to me, is a Georgian pianist (b1981, Tbilisi) who makes her home in Amsterdam. Chopin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas (Mursky)

In a decade of particularly fine recordings of the Chopin Mazurkas, Eugène Mursky’s set of 57 can more than hold...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Helmchen)

No sooner does Alpha release Filippo Gorini’s solo debut CD featuring Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations than the same label issues another...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Organ Works (Kelemen)

This is solid, heavy, monumental Bach. The Hungarian organist Joseph Kelemen adds weight to this programme of Bach works which...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Dance Suites

Given Fred Thomas’s multifaceted talents as a genre- and boundary-blurring composer and improviser, one would expect his first all-Bach solo...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

Music in a Cold Climate

In Echo have been assembled by cornettist Gawain Glenton from mainstays of the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Florilegium, Fretwork,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2018

Kian Soltani: Home

You can tell a great deal about performance quality from one crucial consideration: timing. In the context of Schubert’s Arpeggione...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2018

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