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SKALKOTTAS From Berlin to Athens (Lorenda Ramou)

Eighty-eight minutes? Well, 87'43" of intelligently programmed piano music by Skalkottas, including three world premieres, complementing BIS’s previous groundbreaking releases...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

SCHUMANN Works for Piano (Joseph Tong)

Purely in terms of selections and running order, Joseph Tong’s all-Schumann disc represents an ideal, well-balanced programme that judiciously represents...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

C SCHUMANN Piano Works(De Beenhouwer. Witoschynskij)

These two CDs focus on an area of Clara Schumann’s output which is every bit as interesting (some would say...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2019

KAPSBERGER Intavolatura di chitarone (Jonas Nordberg)

In his Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni (1650), that wildly imaginative polymath Athanasius Kircher all but proclaims...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019

Bella incognita: The imagination of Marco dall'Aquila (Henning)

Suggestion trumps explicitness. Think Fragonard’s L’escarpolette or Herrick’s ‘A sweet disorder in the dress / Kindles in clothes a wantonness’....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019

CZERNY Piano Works (Zhao. Lessing)

The ‘invention’ of the solo recital is generally credited to Liszt on the basis of his 1839 letter, written from...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

Chopin; Schumann; Scriabin (Xue-Hong; Chang; Yunjie)

These three new discs from Accentus are the fruits of a partnership with Académie France-Chine, launched in 2018 by pianist...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

Mariam Batsashvili: Chopin and Liszt

Probably the most attractive part of Mariam Batsashvili’s latest offering is the Liszt Six Polish Songs after Chopin. These arrangements...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2019

BEETHOVEN; RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas (Pogorelich)

I’ve rarely encountered such an ugly-sounding piano release. While the engineering admirably captures Ivo Pogorelich’s wide dynamic scope, his sonority...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

JS BACH Organ Works Vol 3 (Suzuki)

If Masaaki Suzuki’s sacred cantata series was necessarily chronological, clearly evident in this new journey – on the basis of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2019

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