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SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works Vol 4 & 5

Karol Szymanowski was neither one of the 20th century piano-virtuoso-composers on the model of Bartók or Prokofiev nor an ardent...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018

RACHMANINOV Music for 2 Pianos

I began with Suite No 2 for no other reason than I felt like listening to something robust and bracing....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018

PROKOFIEV; STRAVINSKY Transcriptions for Piano

In Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka, David Jalbert begins the ‘Russian Dance’ at a promising clip, only to slightly slow...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

KABALEVSKY Complete Piano Sonatas

Prognosticating the future reputation of a composer, particularly one who died as recently as 30 years ago, is always risky....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018

DE FALLA 4 Piezas Españolas. Fantasia Baetica

Garrick Ohlsson seems to be on a roll lately. He’s recording more prolifically than ever and is constantly expanding his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

CHOPIN Late Piano Works

Today the musical vistas in Haydn, Clementi and Mozart enabled by using Walter, Stein and Broadwood pianos seem almost a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018

BOLCOM Piano Music

Prolific across almost all genres, William Bolcom (80 this May) is also a formidable pianist at both concert and cabaret...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2018

BERSA Complete Piano Music Vol 1

Until this disc arrived for review, my only exposure to the Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa (1873-1934) was through his exuberant,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

BACH; CHOPIN Confluences

Josep Colom does more than merely intersperse Bach Preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier and various Nocturnes and Études by Chopin....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Ning Feng)

Ning Feng’s solo Bach is quite unlike anyone else’s, pure filigree in certain of the faster movements (the presto Double...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018

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