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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

RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated

In addition to Daan Vandewalle’s impressive credits as a new-music pianist, he has a natural inclination towards big projects such...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2017

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