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I Still Play

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that new music during the past 30 years or so would have taken...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020

SCHUMANN Waldszenen, Nachtstücke & Humoreske

The Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, a 2016 Borletti-Buitoni fellow and winner of the Montreal competition the following year, is a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2020

Finbarr Malafronte: Maestros of the Baroque

If you’re used to the brilliance of the harpsichord music of Rameau and Scarlatti on the instrument for which it...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020

Anna Paradiso plays Paradisi

The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, first published in London in 1754. Anna Paradiso misses...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2020

KABALEVSKY Complete Preludes (Michael Korstick)

Once upon a time Dmitry Kabalevsky enjoyed a place on the fourth pedestal of Soviet composers alongside Shostakovich, Prokofiev and...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020

COUPERIN Complete harpsichord works, Vol 2 (Bertrand Cuiller)

Normally, when I have a good feeling about a recording from an initial dip my admiration grows with repeated listening...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020

BERSA Complete Piano Music, Vol 2 (Goran Filipec)

The works featured on Grand Piano’s second volume of piano music by the prolific and multifaceted Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020

BARMOTIN Piano Music (Christopher Williams)

Not just his music but even the name Semyon Barmotin (1877-1939) languished for decades in obscurity, Gérald Hugon’s booklet note...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020

BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Trevor Pinnock)

Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020

ALKAN Grande Sonate (Mark Viner)

Did you know that for the entire era of 78rpm shellac discs (that’s to say from the late 1890s to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2020

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