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Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (Alessandro Taverna)

My colleague Harriet Smith wrote a mixed yet accurate and fair-minded review for Alessandro Taverna’s previous live CD recorded at...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

WIDOR Organ Symphonies Vol 1 – Nos 1 & 2 (Wolfgang Rübsam)

The booklet with this first disc in the Naxos cycle of Widor organ symphonies informs us that the restored 1928...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020

WHITE Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Jonathan Powell)

The sonatas of John White – 180 and counting – rank among the largest and most varied corpuses of piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020

SOR The 19th-Century Guitar (Gianluigi Giglio)

The salon and pedagogical miniatures of the 19th-century guitarist-composers Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi et al sound...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, Vols 3 & 4 (Llŷr Williams)

Michelle Assay’s harsh yet accurate observations concerning Llŷr Williams’s initial Schubert volumes (2/20) sometimes mirror my mixed responses to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D958 & D894 (Adam Laloum)

In my version of Utopia, all professional pianists would start their day by playing through at least one of Schubert’s...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020

RUBINSTEIN Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 (Han Chen)

As far as I know, this is only the third recording of Rubinstein’s E minor Sonata and the second of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020

GRANADOS Goyescas (Jean-Philippe Collard)

Given that Jean-Philippe Collard revels in music containing great harmonic subtlety (Fauré) and textual intricacy (Rachmaninov), it’s not surprising how...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

FEINBERG Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 (Marc-André Hamelin)

What happened to the great Russian composer-pianist tradition in the decades after the death of Scriabin and the emigration of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020

Víkingur Ólafsson: Debussy; Rameau

After reviewing Vikingur Ólafsson’s disc of Bach (11/18) I was eager to hear what he’d do next and this certainly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020

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