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XENAKIS Pléïades. Rebonds

The acclaimed percussion virtuoso Kuniko goes it alone, so to speak, in an impressive multitracked performance of Xenakis’s four-movement, 40-minute...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin

The stream of keyboard tributes to Rameau’s 250th anniversary last year continues with Bertrand Cuiller’s two-disc set for Mirare. His...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas K332, K282, K331

Wittily entitled ‘Keys to Mozart’, Daria van den Bercken’s disc offers a wide-ranging overview of the piano music. Sparsely pedalled,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

KANNO Light, Water, Rainbow

There’s a familiar scale with eight tones (C-D flat-E flat-E natural-F sharp-G-A-B flat) that Scriabin often used. Yoshihiro Kanno employs...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

GRIEG Lyric Pieces

Grieg may not be in the pantheon with the greatest but his freshness of invention continues to give his music...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015

CHOPIN 'Autour des Ballades’

Kotaro Fukuma is a masterly and refined young pianist who, after the virtuoso challenges of Albéniz (Iberia, 10/12) and Balakirev...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 10

It’s not certain if Paavali Jumppanen’s second double-CD release devoted to Beethoven sonatas signifies a cycle in the works, yet...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Six French Suites

Writing in his accompanying essay, Russian-American pianist Sergey Schepkin leaves you in no doubt why Bach is at the heart...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Cello Suites (Complete)

As with so much mainstream repertoire, the catalogue is so full of recordings – good and bad – that there...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

JS BACH Six Sonatas and Partias for Solo Violin

There is delicate ornamentation present here (and not Baroque-specific ornamentation) that is so sparingly used that one would be forgiven...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015

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