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Valentina Lisitsa: Chopin

‘Do we know how Chopin ought to be played or do we just think we do?’ asks the Ukrainian-born pianist...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022

BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; MOZART 'Variations' (Simon Trpčeski)

Simon Trpčeski’s new Linn recording of masters of the variation is likely to inspire admiration and astonishment in equal measure....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH 'Bach from Lincoln' (Colin Walsh)

Unlike his earlier ‘JS Bach from Lincoln’ album (Priory, 11/18), Colin Walsh has avoided any of the big headline-grabbing works...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH Complete Cello Suites (Bruno Philippe)

‘I am convinced that honesty and faith in one’s ideas can result in a form of individuality’, claims the French...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (James Ehnes)

Last June I reviewed James Ehnes’s superb recordings of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas, recorded at his home over a few...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

The Saxophone Craze: Homage to Rudy Wiedoeft

A notable venture of the Covid pandemic was Jonathan Radford’s exploration of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ with Ashley Fripp, throwing a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

Between Two Worlds: Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland

Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters reflects, in its title at least, TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, the first of which, ‘Burnt...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 1 & 3 (Gringolts Quartet)

Volume 1 of this series was welcomed in these pages (10/17) for values of architectural clarity and expressive restraint which...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2022

SCHNITTKE; SHOSTAKOVICH; SILVESTROV 'Outcast'

This is a genuinely remarkable disc. I say this not from any association of its contents with current events, but...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022

RAFF Complete Works For Cello & Piano

Pity Joachim Raff. Pity any fine second-rank composer who had the misfortune to work within the orbit of Liszt, Brahms...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2022

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