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CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas (Giacomo Scinardo; Soyeon Kate Lee)

Muzio Clementi’s 250th birthday was celebrated in 2002 with scholarly conferences in Perugia and Rome. Two years earlier, Ut Orpheus,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020

BUXTEHUDE The Stradal Transcriptions (Meilin Ai)

Toccata Classics continues its mission on behalf of the piano transcriptions of August Stradal (1860-1930), covering compositions by Bach, Wagner,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

BRAHMS Fantasien. Intermezzi. Klavierstücke (Cartier-Bresson)

The French pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson, who studied with Yvonne Loriod and György Sebők, now teaches at the Paris Conservatoire and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32 (Maurizio Pollini)

For pianists and music lovers who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven recordings were considered...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Filiippo Gorini)

Two years ago it was the Diabelli Variations; now 24-year-old Filippo Gorini is scaling scarcely less Himalayan peaks. And I...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020

Richard Strauss and the Viennese Trumpet

In James Blish’s story A Work of Art, scientists in an art-starved future use the music of Richard Strauss to...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2020

The Early Horn (Ursula Paludan Monberg)

Ursula Paludan Monberg, born in 1982 in Aalborg, Denmark, is already the doyenne of the natural horn, having occupied principal...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

Complices (Queyras & Tharaud)

You could be forgiven for looking at the title of this latest collaboration between French masters of their art, Jean-Guihen...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020

Lionel Handy: British Cello Works

Ethel Smyth became the doyenne of British women composers but she was young once, as evidenced by her early Cello...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

VASKS Works for Piano Trio (Palladio Trio)

This release includes the sixth (at least) recording of Vasks’s Episodi e Canto perpetuo but it’s still arguably the least...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020

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