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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

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

From the sound you might expect this performance by the Czech violinist Pavel porcl to be a straightforward period-instrument recording....

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2016

KORNGOLD; BRITTEN Violin Concertos

Collectors of a certain age may look askance at the packaging (there are no fewer than five photographs of the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2016

Mahler Symphony No 9 – Abbado

The fact that Mahler’s Ninth no longer presents a fierce challenge to orchestras and their musicians can bring losses as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2011

WAGNER Lohengrin

To date Knappertsbusch has been represented in Lohengrin only sporadically on disc. This new discovery still provides a late throw...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2016

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