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Piano Dances: Ravel; Shostakovich; Widmann (Anna Vinnitskaya)

Anna Vinnitskaya’s ‘Piano Dances’ uses Ravel’s two large-scale ‘Valse’ pieces to bookend a pair of stylised dance-based groups of miniatures...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

DEBUSSY Images: Piano Works (Saskia Giorgini)

Saskia Giorgini, of Dutch and Italian heritage, has just released her first album of Debussy which, in terms of secure...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024

Mikhail Pletnev: Brahms, Chopin, Shor

The Brahms Op 117 Intermezzos that lead off Mikhail Pletnev’s excellently engineered 2023 Berlin recital reveal the pianist’s colouristic gifts...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Vol 5 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

I’ve previously written about how Xaver Scharwenka’s piano-duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies are more resourceful and idiomatic from a pianistic...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH Trio Sonatas (Martin Neu)

Some 12 years have passed since my previous review of Bach’s Six Trio Sonatas for organ. On that occasion (1/12)...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH Die Kunst der Fuge (Aapo Häkkinen)

Bach’s Art of Fugue has, arguably, fared better on piano than harpsichord, especially in recent years, with fine renditions from...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 9: Köthen (Benjamin Alard)

Benjamin Alard’s project to record Bach’s complete harpsichord and organ music is laudable and ambitious, of interest in particular for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024

The Pre-Raphaelite Cello (Adrian Bradbury)

‘What in the dazes is Pre-Raphaelite music?’ I hear you ask – as well you might, as this is a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

Cantabile: Anthems For Viola (Jordan Bak)

Modern recordings of Arnold Bax’s great Viola Sonata are thin on the ground and so it is a joy to...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 07/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartets Vol 1 (Dudok Quartet)

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam enjoy a healthy Tchaikovsky lineage. They studied with Marc Danel, whose Quatuor Danel in turn studied...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2024

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