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American Rage: Copland, Rzewski, Wolfe (Conrad Tao)

The social and political issues informing the works and the programming concept of Conrad Tao’s latest release, ‘American Rage’, are...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

WEINBERG Complete Sonatas for Solo Cello (Marina Tarasova)

The four sonatas for solo cello are the most immediately captivating of the series of 12 for solo string instruments...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2020

STEVENSON Piano Music, Vol 2 (Kenneth Hamilton)

Ronald Stevenson’s keyboard aesthetic mirrored his role models Ferruccio Busoni and Percy Grainger in several respects. One is that Stevenson...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

SILVESTROV Melodies of Silence (Tomasz Kamieniak)

Valentin Silvestrov’s output of piano miniatures during 2003 17 has often been remarked on while being easily misunderstood. Begun seemingly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 8 & 9 (Freddy Kempf)

Freddy Kempf’s previous instalment of solo Prokofiev (with Sonatas Nos 1, 6 and 7 and some early works) in 2003...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2020

Simon Trpceski: Tales from Russia

One doesn’t necessarily have to know the plots or subtexts attached to these ‘Tales from Russia’ to appreciate their musical...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Vol 2 (Jean Muller)

Jean Muller continues his series of Mozart piano sonatas, launched almost a year ago (4/19), when it came up against...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

MENDELSSOHN Piano Works (Doomin Kim)

If you struggle to make some sort of sense of Doomin Kim’s new Warner Classics release of Mendelssohn’s solo piano...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 6 (James Brawn)

James Brawn continues his serious progress though the Beethoven sonatas, an MSR series which commenced in 2012, with Vol 6...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

JS BACH Organ Works, Vol 1 (Peter Kofler)

The first five-disc set of Peter Kofler’s projected complete Bach organ works series claims to make use of an innovative...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2020

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