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Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt, Vol Two: Salon and Stage

Listening to Liszt’s take on Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture – creative in the most authentic sense – is to recall Ronald...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW23

FRANCK Piano Works (Ingmar Lazar)

Interest in Franck’s solo piano music has focused on the Prélude, aria et final and the Prélude, choral et fugue....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

COUPERIN Complete Harpsichord Music (Massimo Berghella)

With this recording of the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin, we can safely retire the usual introduction to the...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW23

JS BACH Organ Works, Vol 4 (Masaaki Suzuki)

For the English organist and composer Percy Whitlock, most of life’s troubles could easily be countered by ‘a long walk...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW23

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Víkingur Ólafsson)

Víkingur Ólafsson plays the opening Aria of the Goldberg Variations as a straightforward sarabande, giving no hint of his brisk...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites (Florian Berner)

The performance of Bach’s Cello Suites is often surrounded by subtexts that prepare the way for the listening experience, whether...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23

Spanish Impressions

How savvy to begin a programme of Spanish piano trio works with Enrique Arbós’s Three Pieces, Op 1, particularly with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23

An Invitation at the Schumanns'

Here’s a neat concept for an album; and unlike many others, it doesn’t over-determine an understanding of the music. Instead...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW23

Galanterie: The Autumn of the Viola da gamba

André Lislevand’s name will most probably be new to at least the majority of Gramophone readers, but if you’re remotely...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW23

Echoes of Bohemia - Czech Music for Wind

'The Bohemians are remarkably expert in the use of wind instruments’, wrote dear old Dr Burney, and naturally enough he’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23

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