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Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 (Naxos)Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica; Chopin Variations; Sonatina prima; Sonatina seconda; Prelude and Fugue BMV 532 & 565 (Bach, transcribed Busoni) (Chandos)Busoni: Doktor Faust (Naxos) ★★★☆☆/★★★★☆/★★★☆☆ 🎧 Spotify | Spotify | Spotify What’s...

Unplayed Tales… in 40 Fingers (Hyperion) ★★★☆☆ 🎧 Apple | Spotify | Amazon German composers don’t know tips on how to have enjoyable. Suppose no additional than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist...

Ligeti: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No 4 (BIS) ★★★★☆ 🎧 Amazon It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti clarify why he was permitting his first string quartet to be carried...

David Oistrakh — The Full Warner Classics Version (58CDs, 3DVDs) ★★★★☆ 🎧 Warner Classics The place has my week gone? A lot of it was spent plundering a coffin of one of the vital charming violinists...

The Kurt Weill Album (DG) ★★★★☆ 🎧 Apple | Spotify | Amazon The sound of Berlin within the Weimar years is outlined by Kurt Weill. Greater than every other composer, his music for the Bertolt Brecht...

2024 has been a flat 12 months for main labels and an unsettled one for minors. 4 impartial outfits offered out — Hyperion to Common, Bis to Apple, Chandos to Klaus Heymann, Divine...

Hanni Liang: Voices for Solo Piano (Ethel Smyth; Errollyn Wallen; Eleanor Alberga; Sally Beamish; Chen Yi) (Delphian Data) ★★★★★ 🎧 Apple | Spotify | Amazon Ethel Smyth was a middle-class masculine lesbian from an English navy...