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BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 6, 7 & 8

There’s a special fascination to Beethoven’s three violin sonatas Op 30 – music that he seems to have written, in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BACEWICZ Complete Violin Sonatas

The inside cover of this disc shows Grażyna Bacewicz holding a violin; and if you discovered this composer through the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BRAHMS The Final Piano Pieces (Stephen Hough)

Blend imaginative yet learned interpretation, profound sensitivity and poetry, and personal charisma, and you have here one of the finest...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2020

PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet (Stanislav Khristenko)

Since his 2013 victory in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Stanislav Khristenko has been amassing a strong online profile through...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

KERNIS Flue Concerto. Air (Marina Piccinini)

We do not hear enough of the music of Aaron Jay Kernis (b1960). I was mightily impressed with his recent...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

HOLST The Planets. The Perfect Fool

The Planets has received dozens of recordings since its earliest accounts in the 1920s under the composer’s baton. And no...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2020

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3 (Sandro Russo)

For a pianist who usually takes great chances in concert, Sandro Russo’s square phrasing in Chopin’s Fourth Scherzo’s Trio and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

My Outstretched Hand

The three works here were all composed in 2016. As in the previous release of music by Lisa Bielawa to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

Royal Fireworks: Bach, Handel, Purcell, Telemann (Alison Balsom)

When the highlights of Alison Balsom’s last album, ‘Jubilo’ (12/16), were its handful of works recorded not on a modern...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020

Ivana Gavrić: Origins

Seven brief homages to Haydn form the centre of this programme: six from 1909 by leading French composers of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

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