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BRAHMS 7 Fantasies Op 116. 2 Rhapsodies Op 79 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 (Elena Fischer-Dieskau)

In the booklet Elena Fischer-Dieskau’s biography coyly says she was ‘born into a family of musicians’, which hardly sums up...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2021

BRAHMS Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Rhapsodies Op 79 (Garrick Ohlsson)

Garrick Ohlsson’s previous Hyperion Brahms disc (1/19) provoked much the same reaction in me as it did for Harriet Smith...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29. Eroica Variations (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

Perhaps the biggest challenge of the Hammerklavier is the sheer multiplicity of its challenges: stamina and agility, both physical and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2021

Voyage of a sea-god (Laurence Perkins)

Performer, teacher and promoter – Laurence Perkins was ideally placed to have created this anthology with ‘the bassoon leading a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2021

Nostalgic Russia

Hideko Udagawa’s second contribution to Northern Flowers’ ‘St Petersburg Musical Archive’ series is a similar compilation of shorter collections and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2021

The King's Alchemist: British String Trios (Eblana String Trio)

Finzi dedicated the 1938 Prelude and Fugue for string trio to his counterpoint teacher RO Morris (1886-1948), the last of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2021

Michael Collins: La Clarinette Parisienne

Michael Collins and Noriko Ogawa’s survey of French clarinet music interweaves sonatas by Poulenc and Saint-Saëns with four works written...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021

Luis Cabrera: Canto interno

What an eloquent player Luis Cabrera is. In his extensive booklet note, the Spanish-born bassist explains that the album’s title,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2021

RAVEL; SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Much admired in these pages for their interpretations of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the Sitkovetskys make their first foray into French...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021

PENDERECKI Complete Music for String Quartet & String Trio

While Penderecki’s intimate relationship with string instruments is well known, his output for string quartet per se is curious, not...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2021

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