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Made in USA - Gershwin, Beach, Barber (Claire Huangci)

I remember first hearing Claire Huangci’s blazing Paderewski Concerto (Berlin Classics) and being knocked out by her dexterity as she...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21 (Ronald Brautigam)

Schubert’s final piano sonatas are strange works, full of odd phrase lengths, unexpected modulations, bewildering detours and juxtapositions of seemingly...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

NIELSEN 'Espansiva’

Nielsen for piano four hands. Who knew? Probably only those who had been assiduous enough to read the prefaces to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2024

HOSOKAWA 'Awakening: Works for Guitar' (Jacob Kellermann)

Like his countryman Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa has written often and well for the classical guitar. This new...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2024

GLASS Complete Piano Études (Máire Carroll)

These two sets of Études occupy a significant place in Philip Glass’s voluminous output, as is reflected by a now...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

CHOPIN; SCRIABIN; YASHIRO '72 Preludes' (Mao Fujita)

Reporting on the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in the August issue of International Piano that year, James Jolly hailed silver medallist...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

CHOPIN 'Voyage: Late Piano Works' (Yulianna Avdeeva)

In 2010 Yulianna Avdeeva became the first woman to win the Chopin Piano Competition in 45 years (following in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2024

Stella Almondo: Passion

In a way, Stella Almondo’s debut release falls into two parts. The first part brackets an intelligently varied Rachmaninov group...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

BERG; SCHOENBERG; WEBERN Piano Works (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Having continually extended her repertoire these past six decades, Elisabeth Leonskaja turns here to the Second Viennese School with three...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

JS BACH Transcriptions for Two Pianos (Duo Tal & Groethuysen)

The thrill of a fine Bach transcription lies in how a reimagining from the original can reaffirm the qualities and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW2024

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