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Review of REICHA Rediscovered

REICHA Rediscovered

Antoine (or Antonín, Anton) Reicha was one of music’s originals, with a cosmopolitan career tracing a trajectory from his native...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2017

Review of MOMPOU Cançons i Danses. Paisajes. Scènes d’enfants

MOMPOU Cançons i Danses. Paisajes. Scènes d’enfants

One needn’t know much of the piano music or many of the songs by Federico Mompou to recognise his distinctive...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2017

Review of MCCABE Complete Piano Works

MCCABE Complete Piano Works

Stretching across more than half a century, the piano music of John McCabe (1939-2015) is an ideal way into one...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017

Review of LISZT Une divine tragédie

LISZT Une divine tragédie

A combination of imaginative registration, intelligent musicianship, dazzling technique and deep stylistic intuition makes this about the best recorded performance of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2017

Review of Halo

Halo

Andrew Matthews-Owen is best known as an accompanist – or rather a collaborative pianist – and has featured on well-received recordings of Hoddinott, Charlotte Bray...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017

Review of CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas and Preludes

CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas and Preludes

Muzio Clementi was a precocious 14-year-old when brought from his native Rome to England, where he eventually built an international musical...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2017

Review of CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3

CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3

Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy is hardly a household name. On this showing, he deserves to be. He is a storyteller. If the narrative is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017

Review of Louis Lortie plays Chopin, Vol 5

Louis Lortie plays Chopin, Vol 5

Like the previous releases in Louis Lortie’s Chopin series for Chandos, this fifth volume, presenting three sets of Mazurkas, each...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2017

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Kissin)

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (Kissin)

Evgeny Kissin appears to be an unwilling visitor to recording studios these days and offers for this double album live performances...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/2017

Review of Kempff: Beethoven - The Complete Wartime Piano Sonata Recordings

Kempff: Beethoven - The Complete Wartime Piano Sonata Recordings

Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied Wilhelm Kempff throughout his long recording career. In addition to his two familiar mono and stereo...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017

 

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