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TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons. Grand Sonata

As Lugansky points out in his accompanying essay, Tchaikovsky’s G major Sonata and The Seasons fall under the same opus...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017

SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas Vol 5

Pierre Hantaï’s discerning and unhurried stroll through selected Scarlatti sonatas (the single-disc series began way back in 1993) here reaches...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas

For all their teeming surfaces, the Rachmaninov piano sonatas don’t have to be treated as virtuoso demonstration vehicles. Sane, dedicated,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017

MUSSORGSKY Complete Piano Works

The popularity of Pictures at an Exhibition continues unabated. Over-exposure has almost certainly dulled our ears to the splendours of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017

MATTHESON 12 Suites for Harpsichord

The name of Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) appears frequently in books and articles about Baroque music, though seldom in connection with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 18 HAYDN Piano Sonata No 31

This is Guillaume Bellom’s first solo CD and his debut on Claves. His programme contrasts Classical-era Haydn and Schubert with...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017

A Chopin Diary: The Complete Nocturnes

The Chinese-American pianist Claire Huangci has been warmly praised by my colleague Jed Distler (7/15) and it’s easy to understand...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017

BINGHAM Organ Works

Although Resonus proudly proclaims, more than once, that this two-CD set of organ music by Judith Bingham consists ‘entirely of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 24, 28 & 32

Over the past decade and a half, the Austrian pianist Ingrid Marsoner has released some seven recordings playing, in addition...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017

JS BACH Complete French Suites

By the time you read this, Ashkenazy will have turned 80 – which seems almost unbelievable. He has been turning...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017

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