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GLANERT Requiem for Hieronymous Bosch

Another month, another attempt to reconcile the musical tradition of the Latin concert Mass with an age hungry for narrative extras or postmodernist...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

DEBUSSY La Mer. Ariettes oubliées FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande

The release of Robin Ticciati’s first disc with the DSO Berlin coincides with the start of his tenure as the orchestra’s music director....

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW17

Yuanfan Yang: Watercolour

In the hands of a master, watercolour can be a most expressive medium, capturing the fragility of a scene or...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17

Espressione … From Bolzano to San Marino

This release, entitled ‘Espressione … From Bolzano to San Marino’, constitutes a travelogue, or perhaps a ‘competition diary’. In August of 2016, Łukasz...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17

American Nocturnes

A diverse grouping of first sonatas by American composers encompassed Cecile Licad’s Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol 1 (A/16); Vol 2 is given...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

Virtuoso Arrangement by Earl Wild: Rachmaninov

Martin Jones’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mining the piano repertoire en masse continues with a second CD devoted to virtuoso transcriptions...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

URSPRUCH Works for Solo Piano

Biographical sketches of Anton Urspruch (1850-1907), a professor at the Hoch and Raff Conservatories in Frankfurt, make much of his association...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17

Russian Works for Piano 4 Hands

This is an altogether impressive, accomplished and rewarding release, a delight to listen to from both the sound and performance points of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17

Mona Asuka: Schubert, Liszt

In Schubert’s C minor Impromptu, Mona Asuka’s evenly balanced opening G natural octaves and plaintive shaping of the single-line phrase are offset by...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

GODOWSKY Studies on Chopin

Godowsky’s 53 Studies on Chopin’s Études (or 54 or 55 depending on whether you include different ossias in numbering them) present a formidable challenge...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17

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