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DEBUSSY Images Books 1 & 2. Préludes, Book 2

Marc-André Hamelin’s stature, extraordinary from the start, increases with every new issue. And here in his latest album he subdues...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

OFFENBACH Fantasio

To say that Fantasio was one of Offenbach’s more obscure operas would be putting it mildly. A failure at the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2014

Patricia Petibon: La Belle Excentrique

Patricia Petibon’s photo along with some art nouveau-ish script implies music from the belle époque. But no. This far more...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014

Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli

After her programme of Baroque arias in ‘Drama Queens’ (Virgin, 1/13), Joyce DiDonato moves on a century to treat us...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 29

Often known as ‘the Mount Everest of the keyboard’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata poses every conceivable problem, musically and technically (though...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Mass in B minor

With major Bach vocal works now appearing on Hyperion, notably under Stephen Layton, the absence of an à la mode...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

CHOPIN Preludes

It says a lot for this disc that, when Gramophone’s Editor chose it as his Recording of the Month and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014

Murray Perahia plays Chopin

A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As...

Reviewed by James Jolly in issue: 3/2011

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas

How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014

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