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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

IVES Concord Sonata (Donald Berman)

As the longtime general editor of Charles Ives’s piano works for the Ives Society’s critical edition, it stands to reason...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

Karim Said plays Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Webern

As in his previous Rubicon release (4/19), Karim Said again explores connections between teachers and disciples, with Mozart and Beethoven...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

Peter Donohoe plays Granados & Albéniz

Decades of gestation and seasoning inform Peter Donohoe’s excellently engineered readings of Albéniz’s Iberia Books 1 and 2 and the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

Nexus: New Works for Trumpet and Piano

Had Charles Darwin used musical instruments to back up his theory of evolution, he may well have looked to the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

The Naming of Birds: British Wind Quintets

The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

The Mandolin in London

After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024

Home: American String Quartets

The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc

The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024

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