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BERNSTEIN Complete Solo Piano Works

The race to celebrate the 2018 centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth is on. Performances and symposiums will abound, as will...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2017

Hopkinson Smith : Mad Dog

The American lutenist Hopkinson Smith was born in 1946. This beautiful album of lute works melancholy and spry was recorded...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2017

Luiza Borac: Inspirations and Dreams

Today’s foremost champion of her compatriot George Enescu (1881-1955) begins with three of his early works, new to CD but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2017

Dreams & Fancies: English Music for Solo Guitar

It’s no coincidence that the two 20th-century classical guitarists most successful in encouraging composers to write for their instrument, and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2017

American Recital Vol. 2: Ulrich Roman Murtfeld

Ulrich Roman Murtfeld commences his second release devoted to American piano music with Alexander Reinagle’s charming two-movement D major Sonata....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017

Leff Pouishnoff: The Complete 78rpm and Selected Saga LP Recordings

You know you’re getting on a bit when record labels start issuing as ‘historic’ recordings which you bought when they...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2017

WIDOR Solo Organ Works

As a postscript to his recordings of the complete symphonies, Joseph Nolan has mopped up the last crumbs of Widor’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2017

F WALEY-COHEN Permutations

Tamsin Waley-Cohen has built up a wide-ranging discography for Signum and now turns to the music of her sister Freya...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2017

SCHUMANN Carnaval

Studio Odradek is an audibly small, acoustically controlled space where the instrument is a (2008) Steinway Model B. To some...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2017

SATIE Piano Music Vol 2

If Erik Satie was championed by Debussy and Cocteau during his lifetime, popular fascination with this French iconoclast can credibly...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2017

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