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SCRIABIN Complete Etutdes

From the first prelude in B major to the last one in no designated key, the 90 miniatures on this...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2016

ROTA Piano Works

Considering his formidable keyboard facility, it’s surprising that Nino Rota composed relatively few original piano works, although his celebrated film...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

REGER Solo Violin Sonatas

JS Bach hovers very audibly behind of these four wonderful works, sometimes, metaphorically speaking, even stepping forwards to take the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016

LISZT Angelus: Sacred Piano Music

Via Crucis, Liszt’s startling late-period masterpiece, employs tortuous chromaticism and violent dissonance to create a far more ‘graphic’ evocation of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016

DOHNÁNYI Piano Works

Daniel Röhm (b1974, Böblingen, Germany) is a new name to me but a pianist who emerges from this recital with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2016

BRAHMS Solo Piano Works

With all of the inter opus mixing and matching characterising the first five volumes of Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle, a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations

The ups and downs characterising Christian Leotta’s recent Beethoven sonata cycle spill over into his Diabelli Variations, which has a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

JS BACH Violin Sonatas

Midori Seiler’s recording of the unaccompanied Partitas of JS Bach (released five years ago – 4/11), had a number of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2016

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

Following her iconoclastic role-reversing 2008 Meistersinger (Opus Arte, 3/11), Katharina Wagner now gets a novel focus on Tristan und Isolde...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2016

STRADELLA La Circe

Stradella’s serenata La Circe was commissioned by Princess Olimpia Aldobrandini, a Florentine whose deceased Roman husbands had been members of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

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