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Precipitando

Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon has received much attention for his chamber music prowess, notably in collaboration with cellist Steven Isserlis....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2012

The Grandeur of the Baroque

Musicians of David Russell’s taste and experience are like connoisseurs. When they perform a piece of music it’s as though...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2012

Yuja Wang: Fantasia

Yuja Wang’s ‘Fantasia’ may be a this-and-that recital (including lavish tributes to Horowitz and Cziffra, two of the 20th century’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

Darknesse Visible

This is an account of Gaspard to live with as much as for its technical assurance as for the unsettling...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2012

SCRIABIN Piano Works

An extraordinary pianist for extraordinary music. This is Scriabin as you have never heard him before, played by one of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

SCHUBERT Fantasy, D760. Piano Sonata No 21, D960

A couple of years back I much enjoyed Hideyo Harada’s disc of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov (4/09). This release proves to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2012

MOMPOU Piano Music Vol II

As a rich and fascinating corollary, Martin Jones adds to his previous discs of Mompou’s piano music another three-CD album...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

FAURÉ Piano Music

Acknowledgement of Fauré’s genius percolates slowly. And there are still knowing factions who dismiss him as a minor salon figure,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

BRAHMS Works for Solo Piano, Vol 1

Pianists who embark on complete Brahms cycles usually present the groups of small pieces as integral units by opus number:...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2012

JS BACH Piano Transcriptions

As we enter double figures in Hyperion’s distinguished series of transcriptions of Bach for piano, we are reminded of how...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2012

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