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TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons (Barry Douglas; Yuan Sheng)

‘Tchaikovsky Plus One’ is the first of a new series in which Barry Douglas pairs some of Tchaikovsky’s principal works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

MESSIAEN La nativité du Seigneur (Richard Gowers)

Messiaen’s nine-movement reflection on the birth of Christ has long earned its place as one of the great classics for...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018

LISZT Complete piano music Vol 51: "Poems" (Goran Filipec)

The latest instalment in Naxos’s series of Liszt’s piano music contains early or otherwise unfamiliar versions of a several quite...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

Wilhelm Backhaus: Chopin, Liszt, Schumann & Beethoven

Wilhelm Backhaus’s Chopin Études, Opp 10 and 25 from 1928, were the first to be recorded as a complete set...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

BRAHMS Late Piano Pieces, Opp 76, 79, 116-119 (Charles Owen)

That Charles Owen has thought deeply about Brahms before committing the late music to disc is obvious from his conversation...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN The complete piano sonatas Vol 7 (Roscoe)

Martin Roscoe began his traversal of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in 2010, billed as the first complete recording of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

BARTÓK; PROKOFIEV; YSAŸE Works for Solo Violin (Pietsch)

Franziska Pietsch truly takes ownership of Bartók’s Solo Sonata. Her interpretation is prompted by the idea of his ‘explosive seriousness’,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2018

BALAKIREV; GLAZUNOV; KOSENKO Piano Sonatas

I can already hear the sighs from Kiev at seeing Victor Kosenko, born and educated in St Petersburg but thereafter...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2018

Elsa Dreisig: Miroir(s)

Now here’s a striking debut. The young Franco-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig consolidated her 2016 Operalia win by becoming a company...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018

Javier Camarena: Contrabandista

Things bode well when you shout ‘Bravo!’ at the hi fi speakers at the end of the first track. Javier...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018

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