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CPE BACH Symphonies

CPE Bach’s two sets of ‘Hamburg’ symphonies from the 1770s have long been famous for pushing the contemporary musical language...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015

ABRAHAMSEN Four Pieces. Piano Concerto. Ten Studies

Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen was always one of Winter & Winter’s prized house-composers, and this latest instalment in the label’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas

All that is unusual and unexpected about this recording is encapsulated in the second movement of the First Sonata, which...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

CHOPIN 1846: Last year at Nohant

The latest release from this highly praised duo works beautifully on several levels. First, the programme consists entirely of works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015

PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos

Prokofiev’s demanding, conceptually lopsided Cello Concerto, failed at the box office and has been little heard. Indeed, the only significant...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2015

Avi Avital: Vivaldi Concertos

If Avi Avital’s intention is to do for the mandolin what Andrés Segovia did for the classical guitar, he’s already...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2015

ADAMS Wind in High Places. Canticles of the Sky

John Luther Adams’s status as one of new music’s most original musical voices was recognised last year when he was...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Piano Music

Claire-Marie Le Guay is a pianist of broad interests, with repertoire ranging right up to the present day, but this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015

BEETHOVEN Complete Cello Sonatas and Variations

Cellist Matt Haimovitz prefaces his period-instrument Beethoven cycle with an absorbing essay, writing that ‘the consideration is no longer the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015

And the Bridge is Love

A neck injury may have forced Julian Lloyd Webber to retire from the concert platform as a soloist but this...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

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