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Tatyana Nikolaieva: The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital

Look at the close-ups on any YouTube video of Tatyana Nikolaieva’s pianism and you will see on full display the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016

Kentner plays Balakirev, Lyapunov & Liszt

The Hungarian-naturalised-British pianist Louis (Lajos) Kentner is today probably most frequently associated with Liszt, no doubt because of the several...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas

According to the blurb on the back cover of his Mozart sonata cycle, Fazıl Say aims to capture ‘a certain...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2016

MENDELSSOHN 6 Organ Sonatas

Mendelssohn’s six organ sonatas do not crop up all that often on the same disc. They tend to come as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016

Après un rêve: A Fauré Recital

The French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is nothing if not versatile. His Beethoven sonatas (1/11) demonstrated a thoughtful approach to canonic...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

CHOPIN 57 Mazurkas

Listening to Janusz Olejniczak’s two-disc set of Mazurkas is like stepping back in time, to an age when interpretation of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

Pacini Plays Beethoven and Liszt

Soon to be 25, Sophie Pacini is a prodigious pianist, muscular in a way that suggests she’d be happy to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

BARTÓK Mikrokosmos Book 5

Fortunately for us at least two very individual young musicians are currently recording Bartók’s solo piano music, players who go...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2016

Grand Tour

This disc is an unofficial sequel to British pianist John Tilbury’s album ‘For Tomasz Sikorski’, which I reviewed in Gramophone’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2016

French Elegance

This disc is aptly titled. In terms of their playing, Belgians Roeland Hendrikx and Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort tackle standards of the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

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