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SCARLATTI Sonatas Vol 2 (Hewitt)

For her second Scarlatti release, Angela Hewitt partitions 17 sonatas into five distinctly contrasted but well-integrated sub-groups, although an overall game...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

NIETZSCHE Piano Music

Incompetence, amateurism, banality and ineptitude figure largely in previous Gramophone assessments of Nietzsche’s compositional efforts. My guess is that they would...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017

Kotar Fukuma: Chopin Legacy

In the main, Kotaro Fukuma’s Chopin Preludes abound in brute force yet lack poetry. He lays on No 2’s left-hand dissonances to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

CHOPIN Nocturnes (Fazil Say)

Despite their unmistakable indebtedness to John Field, Chopin’s Nocturnes remain unique in the literature. As a group, they are without parallel...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Gorini)

It is easy to hear why Filippo Gorini should have won the 2015 Telekom Beethoven Competition at the age of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas 'Waldstein', 'Appassionata', 'Les Adieux'

Fine violins often improve with age. Pianos, on the other hand, as intricate machines with many moving parts, inevitably deteriorate....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Tetzlaff)

Christian Tetzlaff has plenty to tell us about Bach’s unaccompanied violin music. Sample almost anywhere in this beautifully played set...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2017

Serebrier Conducts Granados

The title is something of a misnomer. José Serebrier and the Concerto Málaga, founded in 1996, offer us not so...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017

Daniil Trifonov: Chopin Evocations

Daniil Trifonov’s last release was an impressive and exhilarating two-disc programme of Liszt’s Studies (10/16). It was an Editor’s Choice and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

The fifth instalment in Mark Elder’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle launches with a strikingly lithe, poised and painstakingly prepared reading...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017

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