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Review of SCHUBERT Fantasie and other Piano Duets

SCHUBERT Fantasie and other Piano Duets

Bringing together two of the most individual pianistic brains around, giving them a copy of a Graf fortepiano and putting...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017

Gramophone Classical Music Awards Winner
Review of Poems & Pictures

Poems & Pictures

In Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, there’s no question that pianist Leticia Gómez-Tagle can navigate the multi-textured thickets of notes...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

Review of MESSIAEN Les corps glorieux. Messe de la Pentecôte

MESSIAEN Les corps glorieux. Messe de la Pentecôte

This is the third in Tom Winpenny’s Messiaen series for Naxos. Previous discs were recorded at St Alban’s Abbey (La...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017

Review of MESSIAEN La Nativité du Seigneur. Offrande au Saint-Sacrement

MESSIAEN La Nativité du Seigneur. Offrande au Saint-Sacrement

There is no shortage of excellent recordings of Messiaen’s second substantial organ work, La Nativité du Seigneur, of 1935. The...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2017

Review of MATTHEWS Music for Solo Violin Vol 2

MATTHEWS Music for Solo Violin Vol 2

I’ve never met David Matthews, but he appears to be a generous soul. There’s hardly a piece in this collection...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

Review of LISZT Life, Love & Afterlife

LISZT Life, Love & Afterlife

Liszt’s peripatetic life seems to invite travelogue programming. Dejan Lazic´’s new Onyx CD touches on several places that inspired important...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017

Review of LISZT Complete Piano Music, Vol 46 – Berlioz Transcriptions

LISZT Complete Piano Music, Vol 46 – Berlioz Transcriptions

Naxos’s intrepid march through all Liszt’s piano music, begun 20 years ago, has now reached Vol 46. If Leslie Howard’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017

Review of DEBUSSY Images RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit

DEBUSSY Images RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit

Alessandro Taverna chooses to play up the contrasts between Debussy and Ravel in this recital, with the latter at his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017

Gramophone Classical Music Awards Winner
Review of The Enlightenment Influence

The Enlightenment Influence

Organists devising a chronological programme invariably come unstuck in the period between Bach and Mendelssohn. The orchestral symphony, the string...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017

Review of Heatwave

Heatwave

The title ‘Heatwave’ might well conjure rather a different music from that for flute, oboe and piano, though this disc...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017


 

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