Alexandre Tharaud - Rameau: Nouvelles Suites - 20th Anniversary EditionGramophone Magazine Tharaud combines pianistic imagination and stylistic sensitivity to locate the fidgety energy of La poule, the rhythmic playfulness of Les tricotets and the grandeur and verve of the Gavotte et doubles, and his playing has clarity and brilliance. To my mind no other pianist has reproduced the spirit of this composer more enchantingly.

2018's 'Wax' was the body record

bass and keyboards with an emphasis on live audience call and response

a first generation immigrant and a German-Portuguese Jew from Hamburg

Martin-in-the-Fields

Liszt/ Walaczek - Transcendental Etudes After Paganini

The album was recorded at Joyride Studio

CANDLEMASS

an album Schneider created in collaboration with producer and romantic partner Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) - where reviews often displaced credit for Schneider's intricate electropop to Barnes - Wicked Jaw finds Schneider decidedly and unequivocally at the helm

and keyboardist Jacob Mann (Rufus Wainwright

The sonatas abound with the most characteristic features of the composer's musical language

" is accompanied by an Eli Sokhn directed music video streaming now on Rival Sons' YouTube channel

But there are plenty of surprises