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RACHMANINOV Compete Preludes

A first listen to 25 year old Lukas Geniušas’s performance of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes left me enormously impressed. A second...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 2 SCHUBERT Impromptus

Until now, the Georgian pianist Elisso Bolkvadze has recorded primarily for the Sony Classical Infinity Digital and Cascavelle labels. On...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2015

SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 3 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Winner of international prizes and invariably a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Alessio Bax now turns to the sharply opposed worlds of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

GOTTSCHALK A Night in the Tropics

Gottschalk is a composer you have to cherry-pick, and on paper this is an attractively varied programme mixing the sentimental,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

CHOPIN 4 Scherzos TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons

What an oddly balanced programme: four of Chopin’s most familiar masterpieces played in sequence (not composed as a suite and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

BRAHMS Solo Piano Works

In the penultimate volume of his Chandos Brahms cycle, Barry Douglas continues to create provocative playlists by liberating short pieces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015

BRAHMS Paganini Variations LISZT Mephisto Waltz

With the Liszt Sonata and now Brahms’s Paganini Variations, to say nothing of the Saint-Saëns-Liszt-Horowitz Danse macabre coupling, Alexander Gavrylyuk...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

BEETHOVEN 32 Variations. Piano Sonatas Nos 19 & 20

This disc features a Christopher Clarke instrument (modelled on a Fritz piano from Vienna, c1818), whose well-regulated action and varied...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 21 and 32

Following a cautious all-Schumann debut (3/15), Boris Giltburg’s second Naxos release, devoted to three Beethoven sonatas, finds the 2013 Queen...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015

JS BACH Keyboard Partitas Nos 1, 2 & 6

Edna Stern should know all about colour: she’s a former pupil of Leon Fleisher and Krystian Zimerman after all. She...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015

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