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BRAHMS by arrangement Vol 2

Brahms’s Op 34 already exists in more than one form: most famously as the turbulent Piano Quintet but also as...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 2 RAVEL Concerto in G (Martha Argerich)

According to one online discography, there are 11 recordings of Martha Argerich playing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto and 15 of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Garrick Ohlsson)

In his booklet note to the five Beethoven piano concertos, recorded over the course of a week during July 2022...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023

Jürgen Groß: More Bach

Presenting Bach’s music alongside that of his sons does not always make for comfortable programming, but here it’s particularly satisfying....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2023

BACEWICZ Piano Concertos (Peter Jablonski, Elisabeth Brauss)

Grażyna Bacewicz: all those harsh consonants, suggestive of jagged edges and perhaps a certain defiant wilfulness – qualities shared by...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2023

HANDEL Serse (Bicket)

This animated and engaging recording, captured with clarity, might perhaps finally please the Fourth Earl of Shaftesbury, who bemoaned the...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2023

SIERRA Symphony No 6 (Hindoyan)

Roberto Sierra (b1953) composed his Sinfonietta for string orchestra (2020) and Sixth Symphony (2022) expressly for Domingo Hindoyan – the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023

CORIGLIANO Complete Piano Works (Philip Edward Fisher)

It’s difficult to imagine a more New York composer than John Corigliano or, for that matter, to imagine New York’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023

BLAND Piano Sonatas (Kevin Gorman)

US composer William Bland (b1947) uses ‘sonata’ as the title of both multi-movement works and the term becomes a sort...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 07/2023

AXELROD '5x4'

The concept here is five (relatively recent) quartets, all constituted very diversely, performed by five different ensembles, but all the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023

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