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Philip Glass: Solo

‘If I’m to be remembered for anything’, Philip Glass has remarked, ‘it will probably be for the piano music, because...

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024

BORENSTEIN Études, Opp. 66 & 86 & other piano works (Tra Nguyen)

Still in his early 50s, Nimrod Borenstein is rapidly establishing himself among the most recorded of contemporary composers in the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 2 (Beatrice Rana)

After elongating the opening bars of the Grave introduction of Chopin’s B flat minor Sonata, Beatrice Rana launches into the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024

Alon Sariel: Plucked Bach II

This is an all-round stunning recording that has me desperately holding out for a ‘Plucked Bach III’. With the first...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024

JS BACH Six Partitas (Giulia Nuti)

Anglo-Italian harpsichordist Giulia Nuti has a longish discography as a lively and quick-fingered continuo player but this is only her...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024

Take 3

Pianist Polina Leschenko’s contribution to the booklet of this new album with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Reto Bieri is an essay...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2024

Path To the Moon

Take note of the cover artwork to Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman’s ‘Path to the Moon’, because its...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024

Alena Baeva: Fantasy

An enthralling programme that stretches the idea of musical fantasy from the shorter of Schubert’s two great, late chamber works...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024

Live from the Concertgebouw: Piano trios by Shostakovich and Silvestrov

So far as the Shostakovich Trios are concerned, Korobeinikov, Gluzman and Moser enter a well-populated field but still manage to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024

The Passenger: Piano Trios by Weinberg & Schubert

As pairings of composers go, there is a lot to commend Schubert and Weinberg. Apart from Schubert being one of...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2024

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