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Review of CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies

CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies

Unfettered personal feelings burst forth; calm mingling with turbulence and harmonic disruption leap off the page at every turn. Sakari...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015

Review of ALBÉNIZ; GRANADOS Piano Concertos

ALBÉNIZ; GRANADOS Piano Concertos

This absorbing disc, the 65th in Hyperion’s endlessly enterprising ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series, juxtaposes the Albéniz Concerto with two first...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015

Review of SCHUBERT Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux

SCHUBERT Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux

This is something special and I urge everyone interested in the discography of Schubert’s piano music to hear it. Unsure...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015

Review of Tintomara

Tintomara

Tintomara is a character from 18th-century Swedish literature who, if not exactly Janus-like, has a dichotomous purpose in projecting the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2015

Review of POULENC; JANÁČEK; PROKOFIEV String Quartets

POULENC; JANÁČEK; PROKOFIEV String Quartets

Linking these three violin sonatas under the title ‘Sounds of War’ produces a powerful recital. Each work caused its composer...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015

Review of Brendan Goh: Moments of Youth

Brendan Goh: Moments of Youth

This is Singaporean cellist Brendan Goh’s second recording (the first was a charity CD), and the title presumably refers to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015

Review of Italians in London!

Italians in London!

There are so many violin sonatas by Italian composers from the first half of the 18th century that mixed anthologies...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015

Review of La Clarinette Française

La Clarinette Française

This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played – using a clarinet from 1830 and a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:

Review of TANSMAN Music for Violin and Piano

TANSMAN Music for Violin and Piano

Putting one’s finger on the personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) can be bewildering and defeating. His core sensibility is elusive,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2015

Review of SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets  Nos 4, 8 & 11

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 4, 8 & 11

Here is a more than respectable calling-card for the young Anglo-Irish Carducci Quartet, who clearly have the technical measure of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2015


 

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