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BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Jean-Guihen Queyras isn’t the first cellist to record the Beethoven cello works with sparing use of vibrato but few of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13

Coming so soon after Praga’s reissue of the fabled second performance of this piece under Kyrill Kondrashin (1962), where the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2014

LANG Love Fail

Anonymous 4 have announced that the 2015-16 season will be their last. This is a source of great regret to...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014

LASSUS Biographie Musicale Vol III

After an uncertain start, this five-volume ‘discographical biography’ of Lassus has hit its stride. Each volume is entrusted to a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2014

Elīna Garanča: Meditation

‘Meditation’ comes with a mission statement in an interview in which the singer says ‘people long for fulfilment, comfort and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2014

MOZART; SCHUBERT; STRAVINSKY Piano Duos

Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim were born in Buenos Aires less than 18 months apart and were regarded as the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2014

PÄRT Choral Music

It should be said, before anyone has the chance to object to the appearance of yet another disc of Pärt’s...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2014

BARRY The Importance of Being Earnest

After the first night of Oscar Wilde’s play, in 1895, George Bernard Shaw complained that it had more of the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4

Even with a never-ending stream of Beethoven piano concerto recordings, whether from established masters (Kempff, Arrau, Gilels, etc) or work...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014

JS BACH Keyboard Partitas BWV825-830

‘When in trouble, play Bach’ – wise advice from Edwin Fischer to a pupil. He was making an observation to...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/2014

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