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Review of Berlinskaya; Lisitsa Recitals

Berlinskaya; Lisitsa Recitals

At no point do the repertoires of these two discs overlap, but, as if tiptoeing around one another, both of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2016

Review of RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Hard on the heels of Igor Levit’s blistering new account of Rzewski’s variations comes a new recording by its dedicatee...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016

Review of MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 11, 15 & 18

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 11, 15 & 18

Hoist with my own petard, I think. Reviewing Igor Levit’s Bach/Beethoven/Rzewski Variations (11/15), I rashly concluded that I would be...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016

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Review of MOZART Keyboard Music Vol 8 & 9

MOZART Keyboard Music Vol 8 & 9

Kristian Bezuidenhout may not have chosen to shock but could well do so in the first movement of the ‘little...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2016

Review of MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 4

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 4

As Howard Shelley reaches the fourth instalment of his solo Mendelssohn journey, familiar and unfamiliar once again rub shoulders. He...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016

Review of LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

At least until Liszt’s bicentenary, complete recordings of his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses were something of a rarity. Even stalwart...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016

Review of GODOWSKY Piano Music Vol 13

GODOWSKY Piano Music Vol 13

Scherbakov began the unprecedented task of recording Godowsky’s complete works nearly two decades ago. The end is in sight –...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016

Review of DETT My Cup Runneth Over

DETT My Cup Runneth Over

The piano works of Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) span his entire creative life, from early ragtime influences to the complexity...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2016

Review of CHOPIN Preludes Op 28

CHOPIN Preludes Op 28

This year the pianist Nelson Goerner has been more active than usual on behalf of Chopin. In October he served...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016

Review of Cage after Cage

Cage after Cage

Percussionist Matthias Kaul comes at Cage from a background in rock and jazz drumming, and it shows in his sense...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016

 

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