Busoni reviews
Bach Nostalghia
Francesco Piemontesi (piano) (Pentatone)
Spira, Spera
Emmanuel Despax (piano) (Signum Classics)
Vida breve (Stephen Hough)
Stephen Hough (piano) (Hyperion)
Good Night! (Bertrand Chamayou)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano) (Erato)
Encounter (Igor Levit)
Igor Levit (piano) (Sony Classical)
Bach Unlimited: Works by JS Bach, Poulenc, Busoni, Roussel, Liszt and Enhco
Lise de la Salle (
Naïve)
Bach • Busoni
Jan Michiels (piano) (Fuga Libera)
Igor Levit: Life
Igor Levit (Sony Classical)
Busoni: Piano Concerto
Pietro Scarpini; Bavarian Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelík (First Hand Records)
Dreamtime
Emmanuel Pahud (flute); Munich Radio Orchestra/Ivan Repušić (Warner Classics)
Shiokawa and Schiff perform Bach, Beethoven and Busoni
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Martha Argerich & Friends with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
This is the last of Warner’s annual gleanings from the Lugano Festival at which Martha Argerich presides – and definitely the most exciting. She may be 76, but her playing has lost none of its phenomenal precision and brilliance; it’s a rare pleasure to hear her playing solo in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, which she has never before committed to disc. In every shared track she induces her ‘friends’ – including the excellent Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana – to raise their game to a level with hers.