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BEETHOVEN Eroica Variations. Piano Sonatas Nos 8 & 23

Beethoven introduces his Eroica Variations with the theme’s bare-boned architectural essence. Konstantin Scherbakov, however, can’t help but embellish the foundation...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2015

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations plus variations by others

Anton Diabelli’s call to ‘The Foremost Tone Poets and Virtuosi of Vienna and the Austrian States’ each to write a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2015

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012

From the first open G string of the first Prelude, the persona of Philip Higham’s performance of the Bach Cello...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2015

JS BACH English Suite No 2 PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 6

In her accompanying essay to this release (there is no specific biography), the Danish pianist Elisabeth Nielsen claims that the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015

Forbidden Music in World War II

Released to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this remarkable set, a compilation of...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015

Solitudes: Baltic Reflections

Not just another mood disc hung off Baltic longing, tragedy and melancholy, but one whose view of the Baltic encompasses...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2015

Divine Noise: Theatrical Music for Two Harpsichords

Guillermo Brachetta has set us an aural puzzle: what should we make of it? The theatrical music alluded to in...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2015

A Concert for Madame de Sévigné

The Marquise de Sévigné (1625 96) was a 17th-century blogger, writing letters to family and friends about life at the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2015

Ophélie Gaillard: Alvorada

Immediately, ‘Alvorada’ stands apart from other discs by more typical classical musicians who make a Spanish/Latin American pitstop. Falla’s durable...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2015

THUILLE Chamber Works

Various labels have been exploring the music of Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) over recent years, though few star names have been...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

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