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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Clarinette Française

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

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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

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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