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SCHUBERT Fantasie Sonata. Hungarian Melody

I wish there were more CDs of Schubert’s piano music like this – a well-planned programme but also a recital...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015

Satie Slowly

‘If Satie’s piano pieces are so easy, why are they so badly played?’ asks Philip Corner in the chunky booklet...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Transcriptions & Arrangements for Organ

This is an intriguing proposition, but one that contains sufficient musical delight to warrant a serious audition. The high quality...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes

Leaving frantic and over-pressured playing to others, Leon McCawley finds a delicate emotional fervour with no lack of drama in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas (Marc-André Hamelin)

Mozart’s piano sonatas are still underrated, I dare say, apart from a handful. There are eight of them here, on...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music 3

Mendelssohn and Howard Shelley are a musical marriage made in heaven. Stylish and delectably light-fingered, Shelley makes a flawless case...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

MEDTNER Piano Sonatas

Medtner is a ‘marmite’ composer. Even some fervent pianophiles struggle, especially on a first hearing, with the profusion of ideas...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

MCCABE Le poisson magique

John McCabe was noted, of course, as a composer-pianist, in the former role notably for piano and orchestral works. But...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

LEGUIZAMÓN El Cuchi Bien Temperado

The title of Pablo Márquez’s latest release is intriguing – ‘The Well-Tempered Pig’ – and requires explanation. ‘Cuchi’ was the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015

KURTÁG Játékok

György Kurtág’s Játékok (‘Games’) is one of the more remarkable musical projects to emerge in the post-war era. Begun in...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015

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