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PAGANINI Caprices (Ning Feng)

For me the litmus test with any recording of Paganini’s mighty ‘24’ is the ‘Trill’ Caprice (No 6), where a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2021

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Papillons. Etudes symphoniques (Andrei Gavrilov)

A pianist colleague likened the young Andrei Gavrilov’s fire-eating virtuosity to a state-of-the-art BMW without the driver. It’s true that...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

Benjamin Grosvenor: Liszt

An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Pastoral Symphony. Tempest Sonata (Ntokou & Argerich)

This recording arrived at the close of Beethoven’s anniversary year and features an unusual partnering of a piano sonata and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 4-6 (Boris Giltburg)

A cursory glance at a couple of catalogues purportedly maintaining lists of commercially available recordings reveals some 42 pianists, living...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH; BUSONI Goldberg Variations (Chiyan Wong)

Chiyan Wong, the Hong Kong-born pianist who turns 33 this year, is an instrumentalist of truly remarkable gifts. Most striking...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 4 (Benjamin Alard)

With his fourth volume devoted to the complete keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Benjamin Alard reaches the middle to...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2021

HAYDN String Quartets Op 76 (London Haydn Quartet; Chiaroscuro Quartet)

‘They are full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects,’ wrote Charles Burney upon hearing Haydn’s Op 76 Quartets...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021

Mirrors - 21st Century American Piano Trios

The piano trio genre seems to have inspired new generations of American composers over the past few decades, and not...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

Around Mozart: A Journey through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet

We’re grabbed by an arresting and self-assured anacrusis, a captivating fullness of tone. But it’s not just a case of...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021

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