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Review of PROKOFIEV Vision fugitives (Florian Noack)

PROKOFIEV Vision fugitives (Florian Noack)

I first became acquainted with Florian Noack’s gifts for lyricism and sensitivity through several Lyapunov discs released by ARS Produktion...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

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Review of LISZT Piano Sonata. 2 Legendes (Joseph Moog)

LISZT Piano Sonata. 2 Legendes (Joseph Moog)

Joseph Moog has one of those techniques that most pianists only dream about. His passagework fairly shimmers with prodigious effortlessness...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

Review of ENESCU Piano Sonata No 3. Suite Op 18 (Saskia Giorgini)

ENESCU Piano Sonata No 3. Suite Op 18 (Saskia Giorgini)

Unlike his first two suites for piano, Enescu’s Op 18 is essentially a collection of individual, unrelated pieces brought together...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12

Review of BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Paganini Variations (Nelson Goerner)

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Paganini Variations (Nelson Goerner)

Given the warm reception accorded his 2009 Brahms B flat Concerto with Tadaaki Otaka and the NHK SO (7/18), it...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 9 (Jonathan Biss)

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 9 (Jonathan Biss)

Amid the veritable blizzard of Beethoven recordings that has already begun in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of his birth...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019

Review of BACH; REGER Brandenburg Concertos (PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann)

BACH; REGER Brandenburg Concertos (PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann)

Reger’s transcriptions for piano duet of the six Brandenburg Concertos date from the early 1900s. They were so well received,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

Review of JS BACH Six Partitas (Angela Hewitt)

JS BACH Six Partitas (Angela Hewitt)

Critics and piano mavens will likely evaluate Angela Hewitt’s new 2018 recording of the Bach Partitas alongside her 1996/97 version....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

Review of ALKAN 25 Preludes (Mark Viner)

ALKAN 25 Preludes (Mark Viner)

After the outstanding recording by Paul Wee of Alkan’s Symphony and Concerto for solo piano in the November issue comes...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

Review of Variety: The Art of Variation

Variety: The Art of Variation

Last album it was musical jokes. This time it’s the art of variation form. But while on paper ‘Variety’ may...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Review of Alex Klein: 20th Century Oboe Sonatas

Alex Klein: 20th Century Oboe Sonatas

If instruments have characters, the oboe, surely, is among the most candid. In a personal note appended to the booklet...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2019


 

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