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DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque etc (Lugansky)

Finally the perfect illustration of what my Ukrainian teacher used to require for playing quiet passages: as if walking through...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018

Kenneth Hamilton: Preludes to Chopin

In his booklet notes, Kenneth Hamilton expresses a deep-rooted interest in Romantic performance traditions that purport to inform his Chopin...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018

CHOPIN Ballades & Nocturnes (Leif Ove Andsnes)

The Andsnes brand comes with a number of cast-iron guarantees: superior clarity, strength and facility without showing off, superb grasp...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH 'From Chester' and 'From London'

In some quarters it has now become distinctly unfashionable to even consider recording Bach’s organ music on instruments which don’t...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Keyboard Works (Vikingur Olafsson)

Not exactly being a fan of Philip Glass’s music, this is the first time I’ve encountered Víkingur Ólafsson on disc,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018

12 Ensemble: Resurrection

String ensembles are hardly a new venture, yet 12 Ensemble already have a distinctive profile in terms of their spare...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

Piatti Quartet: Albion Refracted

I believe this is the Piatti Quartet’s first full ‘unaccompanied’ release. They collaborated with Gottlieb Wallisch on a disc of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

STRAVINSKY Histoire du soldat (Gayot)

Hard on the heels of LSO Live’s austere English-language Soldier’s Tale comes this version in the original French from Harmonia...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT String Quartets, D810 and D173

‘Immer zu! Ohne Rast und Ruh’ – ‘Ever onwards, without respite’: these words from Schubert’s turbulent Goethe setting ‘Rastlose Liebe’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018

REICH Drumming (Kuniko)

‘A Drumming for this decade – and probably a few to come’ was my reaction to the Colin Currie Group’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018

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