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Lucas Debargue plays Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt & Ravel

Few would argue that the international competition circuit has significantly raised the level of piano-playing worldwide. Yet the high stakes...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 7. Four Impromptus

Janina Fialkowska previously impressed me with her accounts of Schubert’s Sonatas D664 and 894. Her reading of the E flat...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2016

Cançons i danses catalanes

The Spanish nationalism that saw composers as diverse as Albéniz, Falla and Rodrigo look to traditional and archaic musics for...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2016

LISZT Paganini Studies

Paganini was already 46 when he first left his native Italy for a series of concerts throughout Europe. The effect...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016

Yulianna Avdeeva plays Chopin, LIszt and Mozart

Yulianna Avdeeva’s first prize in the 2010 Chopin Competition was not without controversy. Hearing her play Shostakovich last year in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 16-18, 24-27

Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven cycle gets better with each new instalment and nearly everything here is a keeper. He obviously adores...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 5

As in Jonathan Biss’s first four Beethoven discs, Vol 5 offers a mix of works from various periods. It adds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

No one could accuse Christophe Rousset of rushing to record The Well-Tempered Clavier; Book 1 arrives a year after Book...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2016

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

Alarm bells always start to ring when the cover of a performance of solo Bach gives the disc a moniker...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2016

Leonidas Kavakos: Virtuoso

It’s not just the enticing morceaux on offer and the undiluted pleasure of hearing a great violinist at the top...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016

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