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YSAŸE Sonatas for Solo Violin JS BACH Sonata BWV1001

The overt references to the Bach unaccompanied works for violin in Eugène Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonatas mean that the pairing of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015

PROKOFIEV Visions Fugitives CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3

In Anna Gourari’s hands, the quirky, caustic, cameo-like and seemingly spontaneous qualities of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives become monumental, aloof and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015

Hana Blažíková: Vienna 1709

Ten arias by three Italian composers (and the Austrian Fux), all of whom were active in Vienna during the first...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Mieczysπaw Weinberg’s time would certainly seem to be now. Advocacy plays a big part in that, of course, and recent...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2015

STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. Capriccio. Movements

Stravinsky was a more than capable pianist, having been given rigorous training by a distinguished teacher, Leokadia Kashperova, who in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015

SUSLIN 1756. Grenzübertritt GUBAIDULINA So sei es

This disc supplements the recent BIS release of instrumental music by Sofia Gubaidulina (A/14). So sei es – a 20-minute...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Così fan tutte

Like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015

KHACHATURIAN; PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos

Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto has never been more popular but for her second concerto collaboration on disc the young Armenian-born...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015

Grigory Sokolov: The Salzburg Recital

Good news for pianophiles everywhere that Grigory Sokolov has, as DG put it, now signed an exclusive contract. This is...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Pastoral Symphony. Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis

This is, to my mind, the finest volume yet in Sir Mark Elder’s unfolding Vaughan Williams cycle with the Hallé....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015

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