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RACHMANINOV Complete Études-tableaux (Osborne)

Before his flight to Scandinavia during the Bolshevik Revolution, Rachmaninov’s last recitals in Russia included some of the Op 39...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018

PAGANINI 24 Caprices (Roman Simovic)

‘I wanted my interpretation of these seminal works to sound fresh and different’, says LSO Leader Roman Simovic in the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018

Leonardo Pierdomenico: Liszt

This is the stunning debut recording of Leonardo Pierdomenico, a 25-year-old native of Pescara in the Abbruzzo region of Italy...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018

LISZT Complete Piano Music: Dances (Filipec)

The more I continued listening to this recital, the more I felt that it was one of the finest all-Liszt...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2018

Justin Taylor: Continuum

Like David Greilsammer’s inspired piano pairing of Scarlatti and Cage (Sony, 6/14), this disc from rising French harpsichordist Justin Taylor...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 7 (Bavouzet)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s series of Haydn’s piano sonatas reaches Vol 7, borne aloft by the momentum of almost unanimously laudatory reviews...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018

WEISS; HASSE Flute Sonatas (Jadran Duncumb)

If you didn’t know that Hasse wrote music for the lute, don’t be hard on yourself. I didn’t either; but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

GODOWSKY Piano works and transcriptions (Kwiatkowski)

Thirty years ago, when only a handful of Godowsky’s compositions (originals and arrangements) were available or recorded, one would have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2018

Kevin Kenner: Late Chopin Works

When it comes to Schubert and Chopin, who died in their thirties, the concept of ‘late works’ is somewhat curious....

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018

BUSONI Elegien. An die Jugend (Carlo Grante)

The nicely chosen image on the front cover shows a nude, elderly woman, depicted from the back, gazing as if...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018

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