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BANTOCK Omar Khayyám

Composed between 1906 and 1909, cast in three parts and lasting some three hours and 20 minutes, Granville Bantock’s thrillingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016

The Soldier's Return: Guitar music inspired by Scotland

What happens when the expansive romantic visions of an ‘exotic’ Scotland such as one finds in Beethoven, Rossini, Mendelssohn or...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2016

SCRIABIN Preludes STOCKHAUSEN Klavierstuck XII

In the booklet interview accompanying her latest CD, Vanessa Benelli Mosell asserts that ‘Scriabin and Stockhausen shared the ambition to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016

Noriko Ogawa plays Satie; Olga Scheps: Satie

John Cage’s mantra that Erik Satie’s structures were based around ‘lengths of time rather than harmonic relations’ (as quoted in...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 6. 7 & 8

Soon after his shared second-prize success in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition, Peter Donohoe recorded a splendid Prokofiev Sixth Sonata for...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016

POULENC Improvisations. Novelettes. Sonata for 4 hands

Lucille Chung’s new Poulenc disc is doubly welcome. To begin with, Chung is a startlingly original pianist whose solo work,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

MASSENET Complete Piano Works

Think of Massenet and you think of Werther, Manon and the ‘Méditation’ from Thaïs – and not necessarily of piano...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

LISZT Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems

Since its inception in 1987, the Naxos Liszt series has released a number of superb recordings. The names Arnaldo Cohen,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

HELLER Variations for Piano. Kinderszenen. Notenbuch für Klein und Gross

Stephen Heller (1813 88) sits below the salt and on these showings at least he is unlikely to win a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016

FIELD Complete Nocturnes

Not one but two sets of Field nocturnes have come my way this month (Ewa Pobłocka’s period-instrument set is reviewed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2016

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