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SOR Guitar Sonatas

William Carter’s two exquisite volumes of a selection of Fernando Sor’s equally exquisite shorter gems have pretty much spoilt me...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2014

SCRIABIN Etudes for Piano

‘Scriabin, where does he come from, and who are his followers?’ asked Stravinsky, lost in bewilderment and wonder. Others took...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin, Volume I

For the first in a three-release series surveying Rameau’s complete keyboard works, Steven Devine plays on a harpsichord copied from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

MENDELSSOHN Solo Piano Music Vol 3

After listening to a ferociously gifted firebrand virtuoso, though one inclined towards hysteria (Khatia Buniatishvili – see page 85), Howard...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN The Seven Last Words of Christ

Neither quill nor leather-covered hammer vibrates a string. Rather a wooden slip does duty for a tangent piano, its strident...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN The London Sonatas

There’s something about Gottlieb Wallisch’s stern and spiky reading of the Haydn E flat Sonata, No 59 (old No 49),...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

DEBUSSY Preludes Book 2

Attractively entitled ‘Beau soir’, Michael Lewin’s recital opens with an arrangement by Koji Attwood of one of Debussy’s earliest songs....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

JS BACH Leipzig and Schübler Chorales

While there is no evidence to suggest that Kåre Nordstoga is embarking on a complete Bach series, his second two-CD...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2014

BACH The Art of Fugue

In his debut...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

ALKAN Vianna da Motta Transcriptions

I have yet to come across a masterpiece for the pedal piano (Schumann’s Op 56 being an arguable exception) but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014

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