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Corazón: the Music of Latin America

John-Henry Crawford won First Prize in the 2019 Carlos Prieto Competition, held in Morelia, Mexico – an experience that Crawford...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

A Cembalo Certato E Violino Solo

JS Bach’s six sonatas for violin and harpsichord are not as prolifically recorded as his Solo Sonatas and Partitas. Not...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2022

TANEYEV String Trio. Piano Quartet

There are two kinds of people: those who have never heard of Sergey Taneyev and those who can’t get enough...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 09/2022

HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 1 (Trio Gaspard)

Great music, boring cello parts was the traditional verdict on Haydn’s keyboard trios. If you got to know these glorious...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2022

Vagues et ombres

Debussy’s music has proved particularly attractive to arrangers, perhaps unsurprisingly since so many of his orchestral works were collective collaborations...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

CHOPIN; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Jean-Guihen Queyras)

According to Isabelle Rouard’s booklet note, Ignaz Moscheles described Chopin’s Cello Sonata as like ‘a wild overgrown forest, into which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

CAPLET Suite Persane DUBOIS Dixtour D'INDY Chanson Et Danses

As Habakuk Traber observes in his perceptive notes, the late 19th and early 20th centuries were something of a golden...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas & Songs (Antonio Meneses)

This programme is identical to Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel’s, with seven song arrangements sandwiched between the two cello sonatas....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022

Prism IV: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bach

Phrased in two (like Schiff) instead of four (Gould), the G minor Fugue from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022

JS BACH Ouvertures-Suites

If you wish to test the mettle of a recording of Bach’s Overtures – known to many as his Orchestral...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2022

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