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DE FALLA 4 Piezas Españolas. Fantasia Baetica

Garrick Ohlsson seems to be on a roll lately. He’s recording more prolifically than ever and is constantly expanding his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

CHOPIN Late Piano Works

Today the musical vistas in Haydn, Clementi and Mozart enabled by using Walter, Stein and Broadwood pianos seem almost a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018

BOLCOM Piano Music

Prolific across almost all genres, William Bolcom (80 this May) is also a formidable pianist at both concert and cabaret...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2018

BERSA Complete Piano Music Vol 1

Until this disc arrived for review, my only exposure to the Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa (1873-1934) was through his exuberant,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

BACH; CHOPIN Confluences

Josep Colom does more than merely intersperse Bach Preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier and various Nocturnes and Études by Chopin....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Ning Feng)

Ning Feng’s solo Bach is quite unlike anyone else’s, pure filigree in certain of the faster movements (the presto Double...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018

Tenebrae: Symphonic Psalms and Prayers

There is a coarse and forthright authority to the composer-led first recordings of Chichester Psalms (CBS, 12/65) and Symphony of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2018

Voces 8: Equinox

Few ensembles put a programme together quite as well as Voces8. Thoughtful, themed discs have become something of a signature...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2018

WARREN 42nd Street

The sound of tapping feet invokes a whole era of classic Broadway and Hollywood musicals, and when the curtain rises...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

SCHUBERT Winterreise (Padmore)

Only a few months after Florian Boesch’s second recording of Schubert’s great wintry song-cycle (Hyperion, A/17), here’s a second bite...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018

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