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A BONONCINI Cantate per Contralto con Violini

This recording was made in the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Austria, where Alois Mühlbacher was a choirboy....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2024

Déjà-rêvé: Dialogues Across Time (Klavierduo Neeb)

Ever since Bartók’s 1937 Sonata, the medium of two pianos and percussion has exerted a compelling fascination on contemporary composers,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024

VILLA-LOBOS 'Do Brazil' (Wilhem Latchoumia)

The La Dolce Volta label’s high-end production values have always befitted Wilhem Latchoumia’s intelligent musicianship and cultivated pianism. Collectors familiar...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

Diaries: Schumann (Tiffany Poon)

Hong Kong-born New York-based Tiffany Poon is one of the piano world’s most enterprising vloggers and YouTube denizens, as well...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

SCHUBERT Piano Works Vol 7 (Vladimir Feltsman)

In Vladimir Feltsman’s burly hands, Schubert’s Impromptus leap out of the drawing room into the opera house. The characteristically swimmy...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

POULENC Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)

Poulenc always claimed that the truest measure of his piano-writing was to be found not in the solo works or...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2024

MUSSORGSKY Pictures SCHUMANN Kriesleriana (Robert Neumann)

‘If you play the text as it is printed you cannot hope for the music to make much sense. The...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2024

HAMELIN New Piano Works

Oh. My. Word. This is, I think, an important recording, not merely because it captures some of the most astonishing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024

Philip Glass: Solo

‘If I’m to be remembered for anything’, Philip Glass has remarked, ‘it will probably be for the piano music, because...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024

BORENSTEIN Études, Opp. 66 & 86 & other piano works (Tra Nguyen)

Still in his early 50s, Nimrod Borenstein is rapidly establishing himself among the most recorded of contemporary composers in the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024

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