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Alexander Melnikov : Four Pieces, Four Pianos

Alexander Melnikov’s new release of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Stravinsky is eloquent testimony to the insights possible through the use...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

Michael Barenboim

Recorded in Berlin’s Jesus-Christus-Kirche, and with a programme juxtaposing older with newer solo violin repertoire, this latest recital disc from...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2018

RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes (Lugansky)

The name of Nikolai Lugansky has become inextricably associated with the music of Rachmaninov and it’s not difficult to understand...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2018

MESSIAEN Catalogue d’oiseaux (Aimard)

Messiaen’s birds have, it seems, been tamed: at least to the extent that there are something like a dozen versions...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2018

Aleksandra Mikulska: Souvenirs

The young Polish pianist Aleksandra Mikulska has studied in Karlsruhe, at the International Piano Academy of Imola and with Arie...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

LISZT Hungarian Rhapsodies (Grante)

First, some title disambiguation. The ‘original versions’ of Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 12 17 recorded here are six of the Magyar...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

DEBUSSY La Mer STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring (Solo Piano)

Behold Debussy’s La mer and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: two landmark 20th-century scores that changed the veneer of orchestration,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

MESSIAEN; DEBUSSY Préludes

Célimène Daudet is a sensitive and evocative French pianist, trained at the conservatoires of Aix-en-Provence, Lyon and Paris, with a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

COUPERIN Dances from the Bauyn Manuscript

For his latest Hyperion release, the immensely talented Pavel Kolesnikov has taken up an extraordinarily daunting challenge. In his decision...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

CHOPIN 'Ghosts'

Nino Gvetadze, a new name to me, is a Georgian pianist (b1981, Tbilisi) who makes her home in Amsterdam. Chopin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

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