Review: Susan Tomes – Women and the Piano
Susan Tomes plays piano works by twelve women composers, from Marianne Martínez and Fanny Mendelssohn to Amy Beach and Raie Da Costa.
Susan Tomes plays piano works by twelve women composers, from Marianne Martínez and Fanny Mendelssohn to Amy Beach and Raie Da Costa.
Daniil Trifonov plays works by Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, Golijov and other Latin Amrican composers.
Two new Mozart piano concerto albums: Marie-Ange Nguci plays Nos. 20 & 22 with Howard Griffiths, Kristian Bezuidenhout Nos. 5, 14 & 20 on fortepiano.
Five new piano albums by Lucas Debargue (Gershwin), Klára Würtz (Beethoven), Aaron Pilsan (Chopin), Kit Armstrong (Piano Chronicles), and Minsoo Sohn (Bach).
Yulianna Avdeeva plays Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor alongside late works.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Bernhard Forck play Emilie Mayer’s Symphony No. 1 and two overtures, with Alexander Melnikov in the Piano Concerto.
Anna Fedorova plays Brahms' late Opp. 117-119 piano sets; András Schiff adds Opp. 76 and 116 on an 1859 Blüthner.
Francesco Piemontesi plays Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 live with the Gewandhausorchester under Manfred Honeck, plus the Op. 118 Piano Pieces.
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and pianist Antonio Pappano perform songs by Montsalvatge, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin and others on 'Mujer Fatal'.
Rafał Blechacz plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 and Beethoven's No. 3 with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Kent Nagano.