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FRESCOBALDI Fiori Musicali (Richard Lester)

I read in three reference sources – none written in the last 40 years – that Fiori musicali (‘Musical Flowers’)...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2023

Rafał Blechacz: Chopin

Given his extraordinary gifts, the Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz (now 37 years old) manages to keep an extraordinarily low profile....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

BRUCKNER The Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions), Vol 5 (Hansjörg Albrecht)

By 2024 Hansjörg Albrecht plans to have finished recording the first complete set of Bruckner’s 10 symphonies in organ arrangements,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2023

Benjamin Grosvenor: Schumann & Brahms

In her excellent booklet notes, Katy Hamilton quotes Clara Wieck (still Robert Schumann’s fiancée) on Kreisleriana: ‘Sometimes your music actually...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2023

BOWEN; MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Works for two pianos (Moog, Adomeit)

Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are so well matched that you can hardly tell the pianists apart. In the opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

Mirrored in Time

This is an intelligently planned, finely played album for trombone and string quartet, part recital of contemporary music, part hypothesis...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

Berlioz's Lost Oboe: Early French Romantic Music For Oboe and Piano

A century before Rodrigo immortalised the palace of Aranjuez in his guitar Concierto (1939), oboist-composer Stanislas Verroust (1814 63) composed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Works Unveiled

Shostakovich was extremely lucky in at least one respect: in his declining years he married a woman who was perfect...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2023

SCHUBERT Works for Piano Trio. Arpeggione Sonata

How does one review a recording of this nature? The very last studio activity of the late Lars Vogt, a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

Stella x Schubert

The piano’s mysteriously, sensuously quivering pianissimo tremolo on to which is spun a long, slowly unfurling violin half-melody, the whole...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023

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