• Pascal Rogé Plays Poulenc

    Pascal Rogé (piano) Decca · 4750422 · 65 minutes Poulenc’s piano music occupies this wonderfully strange middle ground — it’s witty and a little melancholy at the same time, like someone cracking jokes at a funeral and somehow making it feel exactly right. Pascal Rogé has an instinct for that tonal ambiguity that few pianists bother to develop, finding […]

    PASCAL ROGé | 26.06.26

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

    Daniil Trifonov (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4838530 · 2 hours 16 minutes Few pianists make you forget you’re listening to Bach on a modern piano, but Trifonov pulls it off here with a kind of ease that’s genuinely disarming — his way into The Art of Fugue feels less like an intellectual exercise and more like a natural conversation […]

    WF BACH | 26.06.26

  • Jean Sibelius

    Lisa Batiashvili (violin)Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim Deutsche Grammophon · 4796038 · 70 minutes Both the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos can easily tip into showboating, but Lisa Batiashvili resists that pull completely, finding something tender and searching in music that lesser performances turn into an athletic showcase. Her tone has this quality of speaking directly to you, and with Barenboim […]

    SIBELIUS | 26.06.26

  • Alfred Brendel Plays Haydn

    Alfred Brendel (piano) Decca · 4781369 · 3 hours 20 minutes Haydn’s piano sonatas occupy a strange and wonderful corner of the repertoire — endlessly inventive, full of comic feints and harmonic surprises, yet somehow still underplayed compared to the symphonies. Brendel understands that Haydn’s wit isn’t decoration but the actual architecture of the music, and he plays these […]

    ALFRED BRENDEL | 26.06.26

  • Wilhelm Kempff

    Wilhelm Kempff (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4765318 · 2 hours 29 minutes Schubert’s piano music lives in a strange emotional territory — it can feel almost too intimate, like reading someone’s diary, and Kempff understood that instinctively. His touch here is so unhurried and unforced that the famous Wanderer Fantasy and the late sonatas breathe like conversation rather than […]

    WILHELM KEMPFF | 26.06.26

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