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BENJAMIN Into the Little Hill

Nimbus’s latest George Benjamin disc has no unrecorded works but does make a rounded and absorbing programme. Good to have...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

Dance Fantasies

Pianist Catherine Gordeladze begins her recital promisingly with hard-hitting yet virile readings of two Rameau-Godowsky transcriptions plus two pure, unadulterated...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

L’arpa notturna

A debut recording is a statement of intent, and when the artist in question comes trailing as many accolades as...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

À la russe

There are half a dozen encores, or quasi-encores, here that proclaim an outstanding young artist at work – least predictably...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2017

Alberto Reyes Plays Bach, Chopin, Franck

I first encountered the cultivated and masterful pianism of Alberto Reyes on a hard-to-find 1995 Connoisseur Society release devoted to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

Sergey Rachmaninov: Solo Piano Recordings, Vol 4

The 14 tracks here are of six titles Rachmaninov recorded for Edison in New York over four days in April...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017

TOCH Solo Piano Pieces

‘Canada, Malaga, Rimini, Brindisi…’ No need to be embarrassed if that entertainingly tongue-twisting Geographical Fugue has, until now, been your...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

SCHUBERT Fantasie and other Piano Duets

Bringing together two of the most individual pianistic brains around, giving them a copy of a Graf fortepiano and putting...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017

Poems & Pictures

In Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, there’s no question that pianist Leticia Gómez-Tagle can navigate the multi-textured thickets of notes...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2017

MESSIAEN Les corps glorieux. Messe de la Pentecôte

This is the third in Tom Winpenny’s Messiaen series for Naxos. Previous discs were recorded at St Alban’s Abbey (La...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017

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