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SCHUBERT Complete Busoni Transcriptions

While Mahler was acknowledged as the conductor of his generation (Richard Strauss his closest rival), Busoni was the supreme pianist....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017

RUST Der Clavierpoet

For Vincent d’Indy, the near-forgotten Dessau court composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 96) was ‘the connecting link between Haydn and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

REGER Fantasias and Fugues

Reger wrote four large-scale organ Fantasias and Fugues which were not based on chorale melodies. Ranging in playing length from...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017

NIELSEN Organ Works

This CD is considerably enriched by Bine Bryndorf’s detailed and informative booklet-notes. Another plus point is that she plays the...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2017

MOZART; SCHUMANN Fantasies

It’s questionable whether Mozart intended his C minor Fantasy, K475, to be yoked with the C minor Sonata, K457, in...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 04/2017

MONTGEROULT Piano Sonata No 9. 12 Etudes

So far as I can see, this is the first time that Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) has graced these pages....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017

Imogen Cooper plays Liszt and Wagner

The lyrical refinement that typifies Imogen Cooper’s finest recordings suits this selection of Liszt original works and transcriptions. She may...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017

LISZT Operatic Fantasies for Piano

Nowadays two distinct approaches to the music of Liszt prevail among pianists. One group views the published scores as more...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2017

LEIGHTON Complete Organ Works

The first disc in this three-disc set was released separately in 2014 and I reviewed it in these pages. I...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017

GLINKA Complete Piano Works 1: Variations

Tchaikovsky’s judgement that Glinka was the acorn from which the oak of Russian music grew rests on the orchestral Kamarinskaya...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2017

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