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DONIZETTI L’esule Di Roma (Rizzi)

Experimental Donizetti? Do those words ever belong together? Experimental or not, L’esule di Roma (‘The Exile from Rome’), premiered in...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024

Fenella Humphreys: Prism

Just when you thought the pandemic’s musical fruits were all harvested … During the spring 2020 lockdown, Fenella Humphreys –...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

Alexandre Tharaud & Friends: Four Hands

Alexandre Tharaud’s splendid idea was ‘to put together an album for the sheer pleasure of it, in collaboration with dear...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2024

Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Vol 3

This third festival of (mainly) hiss-and-crackle rarities is a very mixed bag indeed. Only the most curious pianophiles need apply....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2024

VISÉE Theorbo Solos (Jakob Lindberg)

Robert de Visée was the foremost guitarist and lutenist at the court of Louis XIV and a member of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2024

SEABOURNE My Song in October

During the almost quarter-century since Peter Seabourne (b1960) made his belated return to composition, the Steps piano cycle has grown...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT; KRENEK Piano Works (Can Çakmur)

Schubert’s 1825 Sonata in C, D840, was left in tatters: the first two movements are complete, but there’s a hole...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT; DESYATNIKOV Works for Piano Duet

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who have lived and played together since student days, have released a conceptually tantalising album...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024

Julius Asal - Scriabin, Scarlatti

There is a lot going for the pairing of Scriabin and Scarlatti, and this DG debut album is nothing if...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2024

REGER Bach Variations. Träume am Kamin (Eden Walker)

Eden Walker, a British pianist based in Hamburg, has chosen Max Reger for what is apparently his debut recording. The...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024

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