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Anna Paradiso plays Paradisi

The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, first published in London in 1754. Anna Paradiso misses...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2020

KABALEVSKY Complete Preludes (Michael Korstick)

Once upon a time Dmitry Kabalevsky enjoyed a place on the fourth pedestal of Soviet composers alongside Shostakovich, Prokofiev and...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020

COUPERIN Complete harpsichord works, Vol 2 (Bertrand Cuiller)

Normally, when I have a good feeling about a recording from an initial dip my admiration grows with repeated listening...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020

BERSA Complete Piano Music, Vol 2 (Goran Filipec)

The works featured on Grand Piano’s second volume of piano music by the prolific and multifaceted Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020

BARMOTIN Piano Music (Christopher Williams)

Not just his music but even the name Semyon Barmotin (1877-1939) languished for decades in obscurity, Gérald Hugon’s booklet note...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020

BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Trevor Pinnock)

Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020

ALKAN Grande Sonate (Mark Viner)

Did you know that for the entire era of 78rpm shellac discs (that’s to say from the late 1890s to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2020

Three American Violin Sonatas (Cho-Liang Lin)

On the evidence of this disc, the violin sonata is alive and kicking in 21st-century America. The form has a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020

La bellezza: The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music

'The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music’ is Lina Tur Bonet’s subtitle for this new release with her ensemble Musica...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020

Barricades (Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau)

If you’re the sort who likes to know exactly what’s going on, you may well find this album frustrating. What...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020

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