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SIBELIUS Piano Works

Sibelius’s piano music continues to divide opinion, and few commentators, with the notable exception of biographer Erik Tawaststjerna (whose son...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04

RICORDI Carnaval Vénitien

Most readers of Gramophone will have heard the name Ricordi, the great Italian music publisher. How many though, I wonder,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

Jean Rondeau plays Royer & Rameau

This is the second recital disc from the young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau. The first, a selection of Bach transcriptions,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016

PEJAČEVIĆ Complete Piano Works

My introduction to Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) came via the sixth of CPO’s pioneering discs devoted to her music (7/15), featuring...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

LISZT Etudes d’exécution transcendante

Liszt’s cycle of 12 studies (his original idea was to write 24 in each of the major and minor keys)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

LISZT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Kreisleriana

The Mexican-Lebanese pianist Simon Ghraichy avoids the now routine pairing of the Liszt Sonata with the Schumann Fantasy, substituting instead...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

GRANADOS Goyescas. El Pelele

Granados succinctly described his Goyescas suite as a work abounding with ‘great flights of imagination and difficulties’, which, however, have...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2016

Ji Liu: Pure Chopin

Ji Liu’s debut album ‘Piano Reflections’ shot straight to No 1 in the classical charts, making him, apparently, ‘the biggest-selling...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3 FRANCK Prélude, Choral et Fugue

It is a rare thing indeed for a young pianist, fresh from a victory at one of the world’s major...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

BOULEZ Complete Piano Music

Pierre Boulez’s complete oeuvre for solo piano encompasses three piano sonatas (1946, 1948, 1957), a chain of miniatures grouped together...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2016

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