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SCRIABIN 24 Preludes RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1

The coupling of Scriabin with Rachmaninov is a particularly interesting one. Fellow students though they were, their personalities were markedly...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2016

Sudbin plays Medtner and Rachmaninov

This is a wondrous disc. Yevgeny Sudbin has not been alone in championing the piano music of Nikolay Medtner: in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2016

LISZT Symphonic Scenes

It could be argued that performances of the first and best known of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltzes by itself are missing...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016

CASSADÓ Suite for Solo Cello KODÁLY Sonata for Solo Cello

Two key aspects of Zoltán Kodály’s groundbreaking Solo Cello Sonata sit side by side: its ambitious extension of the instrument’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016

KAPUSTIN Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 7

Some people seem to click instantly with the light-hearted jazz-classical fusion of Ukrainian Nikolai Kapustin. For me, I confess, it...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2016

GLINKA; TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Music for Four Hands

Is there a more omnivorous pianist on the planet than Cyprien Katsaris? Few equal the breadth and quantity of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016

DEBUSSY Children's Corner. Images. Preludes

Writing in his accompanying essay, ‘A look at French musical life from 1829-1914’, Michel Dalberto makes an intriguing claim. For...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2016

CHOPIN Complete Etudes

It may be that the Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan is destined for a controversial career. He is a highly demonstrative...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016

CHOPIN Preludes Op 28. Piano Sonata No 2

When the 21-year-old South Korean Seong-Jin Cho won the 17th Chopin Competition last October, it seemed only a matter of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016

BRAHMS Piano Pieces. Waltzes

Jonathan Plowright’s complete Brahms piano music for BIS, inaugurated in 2013, has now reached Vol 3, with all its intelligence,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016

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