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ULLMANN Complete Solo Piano Works

It’s ironic how a composer like Viktor Ullmann, who was persecuted and killed by the Nazis, wrote seven piano sonatas...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

SCHUMANN Novelletten. Nachstücke. Romanze

Perceiving series of pieces as inseparable, to be performed from first note to last, is a relatively recent notion, and...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/2014

HINDEMITH Organ Sonatas. 2 Organ Pieces

Hindemith’s organ sonatas have had surprisingly few outings on CD, so this new recording by a former pupil of Wolfgang...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014

Hakim Plays Hakim

Already well represented on disc, the music of Naji Hakim is the focus of the first in a new series...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014

Mister Dowland's Midnight

As a sometime Lieder accompanist and conductor, Swiss-born guitarist Christoph Denoth is superbly placed to exploit the cantabile and colouristic...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014

DEBUSSY La Mer RAVEL La Valse. Boléro

The Swedish virtuoso Gunnar Idenstam tells us that he has toyed with the idea of arranging Debussy’s La mer for...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

DEANE Noctuary

The greater recorded availability of Irish new music over these past two decades has enabled composers such as Raymond Deane...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

COOKE Piano Music

How aware are we of the immense influence of Tobias Matthay, an RAM teacher whose innumerable pupils included Myra Hess,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2014

Wilde Plays Chopin Vol 2

For his second Delphian Chopin disc, David Wilde offers a determined attack on conventional wisdom. Here is no ‘sick-room talent’...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 1 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29

After Brahms performed his First Piano Sonata, a friend mentioned the resemblance between its opening theme and that of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

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