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LISZT Schwanengesang. Valses oubliées ( Can Çakmur)

This is Can Çakmur’s second album for BIS. The 23-year-old Turkish pianist’s first, which included works by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, Haydn,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

KODÁLY; LIGETI Sonatas for Solo Cello (Gabriel Schwabe)

I feel sure that Gabriel Schwabe has the chops and musical intellect to give a great performance of Kodály’s Solo...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020

DYSON "The Open Window" Complete music for piano (Simon Callaghan)

The past quarter of a century has brought steady reappraisal of George Dyson (1883-1964), and while an extensive choral output...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020

A-L COUPERIN Pièces de Clavecin (Christophe Rousset)

Armand-Louis Couperin was not the nephew of François Couperin, as is sometimes asserted in both historic and contemporary accounts of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2020

CHOPIN Piano Works, Vol 6 (Louis Lortie)

A decade after the start of his Chopin series, for its sixth volume Louis Lortie offers another carefully arranged bouquet,...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2020

BALAKIREV Complete Piano Works, Vol 6 - Islamey and Beyond (Nicholas Walker)

So the journey ends. A project that began back in 1994 has finally reached its conclusion with this sixth volume....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

Tabea Zimmermann: Solo II

It was in 2009 that Tabea Zimmermann released the first two of Bach’s Solo Cello Suites alongside Reger’s three on...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (Smetana Trio; Trio Sōra)

When Beethoven decided in 1795 to announce himself to his adopted Vienna as a published composer, it was not with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020

Nathan Meltzer: To Roman Totenberg

There’s every likelihood, were it not for his being highlighted as Gramophone’s One to Watch in the November issue, that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020

The Mad Lover (Thomas Dunsford, Théotime Langlois de Swarte)

Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Have you ever read such a fabulous name? And with fabulous playing to match, it’s a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2020

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