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BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations

Because Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations usually last anywhere from 45 to 58 minutes, I wondered if the 72-and-a-half-minute timing for Christina...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

BARTON Birdsong at Dusk

Many cultural events in Australia are preceded by a Welcome to Country, a short yet beautiful ceremony in which a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014

CPE BACH Rondos and Fantasias

Although Christine Schornsheim has recorded sound and stylish JS Bach interpretations, she truly lets loose with his son Carl Philipp...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites 2, 4 & 6

If there is only one thing all cellists agree on, it is that the Bach Cello Suites are not starter...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

Verso Venezia

Seventeenth-century Venice witnessed spectacular musical developments, from the polychoral liturgical motets of Gabrieli to the establishment of Europe’s first competing...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014

The Pianos Trio: Live in Lugano

These recordings are all of live performances given during Martha Argerich’s Lugano Festival between 2010 and 2013. The Pianos Trio...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014

Moderato Cantabile: Komitas, Gurdjieff & Mompou

The German cellist Anja Lechner, best known to Gramophone readers as a founder member of the Rosamunde Quartet, works frequently...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2014

Nils Mönkemeyer: Barocco español

Spanish Baroque music played on the viola? Why not – especially when the viola is played by someone of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

Geniality and impeccable craftsmanship go hand in hand when it comes to Saint-Saëns’s piano trios. As Basil Smallman remarked in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

RÖNTGEN String Trios Nos 5 - 8

The Lendvai Trio’s previous disc of Röntgen string trios (2/14), featuring Nos 1 4, was one of the great surprises...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014

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