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BEETHOVEN Piano and Violin Concertos

If you fancy a set of the Beethoven piano concertos that’s suitable for listening to at a single sitting, then...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017

Daniel Barenboim: On My New Piano

A quick recap on the story behind Daniel Barenboim’s new piano. It all began with Liszt – when Barenboim went...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017

GLASS Dreaming Awake

Bruce Levingston’s close association with Philip Glass over the years has seen him perform duets with the composer and produce...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

MOZART Piano Sonatas K281, 283, 333 & 576

William Youn is a pianist of great sensitivity, as previous reviewers of his Mozart sonata cycle have noted (5/14). But...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017

Sing to Water

The Japanese pianist Kotaro Fukuma, now in his early thirties, begins this impressive album with his own arrangement of Smetana’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017

Jean Muller: Reflets et symétries

Jean Muller’s new Soupir disc is a study in stylistic diversity, from the mid-19th-century Romanticism of Brahms’s First Sonata to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2017

WOELFL Piano Sonatas

At the turn of the 19th century the Viennese musical elite loved nothing more than a gladiatorial keyboard contest. One...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2017

LOURIÉ Solo Piano Works

Interest in Arthur Lourié (1892-1966), the erstwhile Soviet music commissar who defected to the West in 1922, seems to be...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2017

KAGEL improvisation ajoutée. rrrrr....

This is a fascinating CD; we hear sounds from a pipe organ far removed from the everyday world of choral...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2017

CHOPIN 24 Preludes SCHUMANN Fantasie

The Cuban-born American-based pianist Horacio Gutiérrez has enjoyed a successful international career for more than four decades, yet he’s made...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2017

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