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BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone, Op 33

The Magelone Romances – an anthology rather than a true cycle – have never been a Brahmsian favourite. Ludwig Tieck’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2014

Touching the Sound: The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii

I welcomed Peter Rosen’s film of Nobuyuki Tsujii’s Carnegie Hall debut in the November 2012 issue. Here Rosen tells the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014

Tickle the Minikin: 17th-century lyra viol music

‘Tickle the minikin’ is 16th-century slang for playing the highest string of a viol, like a pub pianist ‘tinkles the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014

Jos Zwaanenburg: Grist

Jos Zwaanenburg is a Dutch flautist with a taste for electronics, improvisation and chance procedures, and each of the composers...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2014

Luiza Borac: Chants Nostalgiques

Not so much nostalgique as excentrique. Luiza Borac, whose disc of music by her fellow countryman Dinu Lipatti I welcomed...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014

MEDTNER Sonata Romantica RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 2

Steven Osborne is on a bit of a Russian odyssey at the moment. Now it’s the turn of two great...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014

LOCATELLI 24 Caprices for Solo Violin

Locatelli composed L’arte del violino in the mid-1720s, soon after Bach completed his solo Sonatas and Partitas and nearly 80...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32 SCRIABIN Etude

For her Decca solo debut, the Italian pianist Maria Perrotta rather boldly offers a live concert recording of Beethoven’s last...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014

JS BACH The Art of Fugue

How would Bach react to presenting his entire Art of Fugue in one sitting, with the final fugue incomplete as...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014

ALBÉNIZ 7 Studies. Les Saisons. Suites. Danzas

Both of these albums will delight pundits and academics anxious to follow Albéniz’s early style before it blossomed into his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014

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