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The English Cathedral Series, Vol 19: Peterborough

This latest instalment in Regent’s trawl through the organs of English cathedrals takes us to Peterborough. Here an 1894 William...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015

WIDOR Organ Symphonies Nos 1-4

The four symphonies of the Op 13 set originated in 1872. Nowadays we hear them – 24 movements in all...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

SMETANA Piano Works

In 2005 Jitka Čechová launched what promises to be the most comprehensive Smetana cycle on disc. Ten years later she...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

SCHUBERT Fantasie Sonata. Hungarian Melody

I wish there were more CDs of Schubert’s piano music like this – a well-planned programme but also a recital...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015

Satie Slowly

‘If Satie’s piano pieces are so easy, why are they so badly played?’ asks Philip Corner in the chunky booklet...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Transcriptions & Arrangements for Organ

This is an intriguing proposition, but one that contains sufficient musical delight to warrant a serious audition. The high quality...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2015

RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes

Leaving frantic and over-pressured playing to others, Leon McCawley finds a delicate emotional fervour with no lack of drama in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas (Marc-André Hamelin)

Mozart’s piano sonatas are still underrated, I dare say, apart from a handful. There are eight of them here, on...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2015

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music 3

Mendelssohn and Howard Shelley are a musical marriage made in heaven. Stylish and delectably light-fingered, Shelley makes a flawless case...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

MEDTNER Piano Sonatas

Medtner is a ‘marmite’ composer. Even some fervent pianophiles struggle, especially on a first hearing, with the profusion of ideas...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

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