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BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

These impressive performances come into direct competition with the set released last year by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang. Recorded...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 - 11

It isn’t difficult to feel confident as the Cypress Quartet launch into the first movement of Op 59 No 1....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015

The Usher Hall Organ Vol 2

Ten years on from his first recording for Delphian of the (then) newly restored Norman and Beard in the Usher...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015

Kristinn Árnason: Transfiguratio

On the surface, prize-winning Icelandic guitarist Kristinn Árnason’s latest recording contains few surprises: a classic recital comprising chronologically ordered pieces...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2015

Carolin Widmann: Reflections

Carolin Widmann is an outstandingly enterprising artist at a time when many leading violinists are content to stick with the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015

SCHUBERT; CHOPIN; FAURÉ Impromptus

Impromptus may be the subject of Tomasz Lis’s solo CD debut but the pianist’s generally reserved and charmless interpretations suggest...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015

Hommage à Weber

First, the recording. Duo d’Accord – Lucia Huang and Sebastian Euler – lives up to its name in terms of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015

Clare Hammond: Etude

Simply entitled ‘Etude’, Clare Hammond’s recital is gloriously deceptive. For here is no familiar programme of Chopin and Liszt but...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2015

Thomas Gould: Bach to Parker

Bach is the arbiter of many good and different things, and it’s no coincidence that the only composers paired with...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015

SCRIABIN Complete Poèmes

Initially idolised by a small coterie, Scriabin was also vilified by those who placed reason above passion, clarity above obscurity....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2015

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