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Leon McCawley: Natural Connection - Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World

From most pianists, this sort of grab-bag programme would tend to be a collection of personal favourites, perhaps played from...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024

Martin James Bartlett: La Danse

Don’t be fooled by the funky title-lettering on the booklet. The programme of ‘La danse’ is hardly calculated for kicking...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2024

SCHUMANN Piano Works (Llŷr Williams)

This pair of generously filled discs attests to the Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams’s passion for this repertoire and his capacity...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024

MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Igor Levit)

This latest release from the pianist and activist Igor Levit is his personal response to the atrocities of 7 October....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

GRANADOS Goyescas. El pelele (Javier Perianes)

The main challenge for pianists taking on Granados’s Goyescas is making both literal and musical sense out of the composer’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024

FERNÁNDEZ Piano Music (Martin Jones)

You have to hand it to Martin Jones. Now in his 84th year, he has amassed an extraordinary discography of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

CORRETTE; DANDRIEU 'French Organ Music of the Golden Age Vol 8' (David Ponsford)

Volume 8 of David Ponsford’s magisterial survey of 18th-century French organ music was recorded in May 2023 in Marmoutier Abbey...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3; RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Peter Donohoe)

As they join the ranks of éminences grises, many musicians turn retrospective, revisiting repertoire high points to make final refinements....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024

BRAHMS 'Resonances' (Julian Jaeyoung Kim)

The 34-year-old pianist Julian Jaeyoung Kim keeps a vice-like grip on the dotted rhythms in the first movement of Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024

BEACH Piano Music (Martina Frezzotti)

The more I listen to the music of Amy Beach, the more I wonder why it is not more widely...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

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