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Piano Music of Palestinian Composers

Palestinian classical composition remains a largely unknown quantity, even though numerous practitioners were based at least partially in the West....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017

The Operatic Pianist II

With origins dating back to the 18th century, the opera fantasy reached its artistic peak during the 19th in the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

George Li: Live at the Mariinsky

A photograph of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist on the disc cover shows a young man looking into the camera...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

Afierossis: 20th & 21st-century works for cello solo

The Greek word ‘afierossis’ is a portmanteau of ‘dedication’ and ‘sacred’. On this impressive recording, the Athens-born cellist Michael Heupel explores...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2017

TELEMANN Fantasias for Viola da Gamba

As if playing such a ravishing instrument were not enough, exponents of the viola da gamba must be feeling especially...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

STERNDALE BENNETT Piano Sonata SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes

The long-neglected British composer William Sterndale Bennett moved in the highest musical circles, being a close friend of both Mendelssohn...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

SCARLATTI Sonatas Vol 2 (Hewitt)

For her second Scarlatti release, Angela Hewitt partitions 17 sonatas into five distinctly contrasted but well-integrated sub-groups, although an overall game...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

NIETZSCHE Piano Music

Incompetence, amateurism, banality and ineptitude figure largely in previous Gramophone assessments of Nietzsche’s compositional efforts. My guess is that they would...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017

Kotar Fukuma: Chopin Legacy

In the main, Kotaro Fukuma’s Chopin Preludes abound in brute force yet lack poetry. He lays on No 2’s left-hand dissonances to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

CHOPIN Nocturnes (Fazil Say)

Despite their unmistakable indebtedness to John Field, Chopin’s Nocturnes remain unique in the literature. As a group, they are without parallel...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

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