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SCHNITTKE Complete Piano Sonatas

Alfred Schnittke may not have written the most idiomatic and finger-friendly piano music of his time. Yet he surely understood...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2014

ROUSSEL Piano Music Vol 1

Following five issues of Roussel’s orchestral music, Naxos now gives us the first of a three-volume set of the piano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

MOZART Piano Sonatas K282, 310, 330 & 570

William Youn is a young Korean pianist who plans to record the complete Mozart piano sonatas over a five-year period....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

HANDEL The Eight Great Suites

John Cluer published Handel’s Suites de pièces pour le clavecin in November 1720. Hyperion’s set by harpsichordist Paul Nicholson (6/95)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

GUERAU Complete Works for Guitar

Recorded between 2010 and 2013, the three discs that comprise this box-set open up for the listener a strange, intricate...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5

Let’s hope that this debut recording by the prize-winning Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann is the first of a two-disc set....

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2014

Magdalena Kožená: Prayer

Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená believes it is ‘impossible to draw a line between the religious and the personal’. It’s a philosophy...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014

Marie et Marion: Motets and Chansons from 13th-century France

Twenty years ago, Anonymous 4 had the absurd courage to issue a disc entirely confined to motets in the 13th-century...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2014

The Golden Age of Danish Partsongs

Two discs here drawn from the same rich fund of Danish ‘folk-like’ songs for amateur consumption and with some overlap...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014

Destino Mexicano

Having touched briefly on New World repertoire in their previous release ‘Ay Portugal’ (ABC Classics), Melbourne-based ensemble La Compañia go...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

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