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SCRIABIN Complete Mazurkas

Scriabin’s 21 mazurkas are a loving and audacious tribute to Chopin. Audacious because, with the exception of Szymanowski (his 20...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015

SCHUBERT Works for Four Hands Vol 1

Having recorded Schubert’s complete piano music on period instruments, Jan Vermeulen now launches a cycle dedicated to the composer’s abundant...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 9 & 10. Sonatinas. Cello Sonata

Even if Prokofiev sonata cycles are no longer rarer than hen’s teeth, Boris Berman’s 1990s Chandos sequence has remained a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2015

MESSIAEN Les Corps Glorieux

Les Corps Glorieux and La Nativité du Seigneur are Olivier Messiaen’s two major pre-war organ cycles, works that helped clarify...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

DEBUSSY Préludes (Complete)

With Debussy’s Préludes attracting some exceptional recordings (and I include as comparisons only those by contemporary pianists), it’s a bold...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015

CHOPIN Nocturnes

Lars Vogt is a pianist I admire greatly, though Chopin is not a composer with whom I’d readily associate him....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015

CAGE One7. Four6

Music notation is a map providing points of orientation that allow players to walk the interpretative walk, their idea of...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015

JS BACH Cello Suites (Complete)

Youth has long been thought of as a considerable impediment to the artistically successful – live or recorded – performance...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

Where are you? Pieces from Warsaw

The proMODERN Sextet, new to me, is a highly accomplished group of young singers specialising in contemporary Polish music, and...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015

Sacred Songs of Life and Love

That Stephen Layton’s recording of contemporary Baltic choral music, ‘Baltic Exchange’, with Polyphony (4/10) displays no overlap of repertoire with...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015

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