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A SCARLATTI Prima d’esservi infedele: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violins

Alessandro Scarlatti composed more than 800 cantatas, so it is little wonder that these four for soprano voice, two violins...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

Go, Lovely Rose: Songs of Roger Quilter (James Gilchrist)

‘The songs of Roger Quilter seem to have been with me all my life’, James Gilchrist tells us in a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024

BONONCINI 'How the Mighty are Fallen' - Choral Music

A few of Bononcini’s sacred works copied in English 18th-century manuscripts can be connected to their use in concerts by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

Mischa Levitzki: The Complete HMV Recordings

APR first issued this iconic collection in 1992 (APR7020, 6/92). It was a revelation for many pianophiles who had either...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024

Rebeca Omordia: African Pianism Vol 2

The second volume of Rebeca Omordia’s ‘African Pianism’ proves as much of a revelation as the first (5/22). The opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

STOCKHAUSEN Mantra (GrauSchumacher Piano Duo)

Whether or not he would admit it, playing jazz piano in the cafés of post-war Cologne left its mark on...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024

SCHUBERT Ländler (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

Schubert composed around 450 dances for piano. While their original function may have been modest, all are exemplary of their...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2024

Movements: Schumann, Ravel, Stravinsky (George Li)

Since his silver medal at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American pianist George Li, who turns 29 this summer, has...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2024

LISZT Piano Works (Emmanuel Despax)

Sometimes a recording comes up for review which, when you listen to a particular piece that you know well, is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024

KOSKINEN Fuga Indiana (Joonas Ahonen)

Arto Koskinen’s piano cycle Fuga indiana is a group of 17 pieces that aim to synthesise Baroque contrapuntal techniques with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

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