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MOMPOU; RAVEL Reflections (Brocal)

Julien Brocal, a young French composer and pianist born in Arles, has studied with Erick Berchot and Rena Shereshevskaya at...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018

HAYDN Piano Sonatas HobXVI (Paul Lewis)

Paul Lewis has finally turned his attention to Haydn. Hurray for that, for it’s a superb fit; it’s also clear...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018

FRANCK Organ Works (Boysen)

The charming little Andantino, Franck’s first published organ work dating back to 1858, gets rather overlooked in recordings of his...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018

DOHNÁNYI Piano Works (Gülbadamova)

With a recent live recording of Dohnányi’s Second Piano Concerto (HD Klassik) also to her name, Russian-born Sofja Gülbadamova here...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2018

Menahem Pressler: Clair de Lune

Many pianists interpret Debussy’s ‘Danseuses de Delphes’ with steady, stately and often placid calm. Not Menahem Pressler. He takes Debussy’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018

COUPERIN Pièces De Clavecin Troisieme Livre

The eminent French harpsichordist Blandine Verlet has again returned to Couperin, a composer with whom she has been intimately associated...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN; HAYDN Piano Sonatas (Cavé)

‘I never learned anything from Haydn’, claimed Beethoven about his erstwhile composition teacher, yet Olivier Cavé’s programme, interspersing sonatas by...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 2, 20, 17 & 30 (Jonathan Biss)

We reach the seventh volume of Jonathan Biss’s thought-provoking Beethoven sonata cycle. The pieces on this disc seem to suit...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018

ESCAICH 6 Etudes-Chorales

Four Bach works alternate with five of Thomas Ospital’s own improvisations and a set of six Études-Chorals by Thierry Escaich....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018

Shadow Etchings: New Music for Flute

Orlando Cela brings an adventurer’s spirit to ‘Shadow Etchings’, his disc of new music for flute. Each work requires the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2018

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