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MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, complete

Though rarely heard in concert these days – more’s the pity – Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words have delighted generations of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014

JANÁČEK Complete Works for Piano

This invaluable two-CD album of Janáček’s complete piano music includes a short and personal essay by Martino Tirimo. There he...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas

Although Muzio Clementi’s prolific sonata output rarely figures in the concert hall, it has certainly proliferated on CD over the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014

CHOPIN Mazurkas

There are some noteworthy and lovely things about this recording. First, there is the mellow tone of the restored 1830s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014

Dolcissima et Amorosa

To begin at the end: Paul O’Dette’s own tribute (Harmonia Mundi, 7/13) to that inspired miniaturist of the lute, Francesco...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 31 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21

Playing as if before a small late-night audience of friends, Menahem Pressler gives us a warmth and speculation far removed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Piano Vol 13

Vol 13 of Ronald Brautigam’s cycle encompassing Beethoven’s complete solo piano output sheds fresh light on familiar and relatively obscure...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier

Recorded between 1998 and 2001, and first released in two parts a decade ago, these four discs present all 48...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH 'Italian' Concerto. 'French' Overture

Listeners used to a wild and woolly Bach Chromatic Fantasia might find Steven Devine’s italicised phrasing overly studied in the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014

AHO Works with and for Organ

Aho’s writing for organ certainly betrays the same ear for instrumental colour as his orchestral works, and it is refreshing...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014

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