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The Glass Effect

Lavinia Meijer’s debut recording of Glass’s music (Channel Classics, 3/13) was a rather underwhelming experience. Consisting mainly of the dark...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2017

LISZT Early Transcriptions

Georgian-born Mariam Batsashvili won first prize at the 2014 International Franz Liszt Competition in Utrecht, the first female artist to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Music for 2 Pianos

Much painstaking detective work and considerable editorial expertise went into this first recording of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony in an...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017

SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas

On February 18, 2015, Peter Donohoe undertook a remarkable tour de force of concentration, stamina and technical prowess by playing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2017

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 2, 6 & 8

To listeners who know Alexander Melnikov’s cultivated musicality and fastidious pianism – so beautifully manifest in the series of Schumann...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017

HENSELT Piano Works

All-Henselt discs are few and far between (the last in these pages was Piers Lane’s less than successful accounts of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 33, 53, 60 and 62

No doubt about it, compared to the Mozart piano sonatas Haydn’s are still neglected. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s extended project for Chandos...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017

Minnaar: Fauré Piano Music

This recital (for it is precisely that; a DVD of the event, expertly filmed in January 2016, accompanies the SACD)...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017

CHOPIN Late Works Opp 59-64

‘I’m in love with Chopin – his music never ceases to amaze me’, Pollini is quoted as saying on the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017

Charles Richard-Hamelin: Live

A French-Canadian pianist named Hamelin, but not that one and no relation. Charles Richard-Hamelin (silver medallist at the 2015 Chopin...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017

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