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JS BACH Six Partitas (Angela Hewitt)

Critics and piano mavens will likely evaluate Angela Hewitt’s new 2018 recording of the Bach Partitas alongside her 1996/97 version....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

ALKAN 25 Preludes (Mark Viner)

After the outstanding recording by Paul Wee of Alkan’s Symphony and Concerto for solo piano in the November issue comes...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019

Variety: The Art of Variation

Last album it was musical jokes. This time it’s the art of variation form. But while on paper ‘Variety’ may...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Alex Klein: 20th Century Oboe Sonatas

If instruments have characters, the oboe, surely, is among the most candid. In a personal note appended to the booklet...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2019

Diana Tishchenko: Strangers in paradise

When the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko won the 2018 Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris she was the indisputable winner....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019

Mischa & Lily Maisky: 20th Century Classics

The most interesting item here is a wild amalgam of folk-derived dance music and orchestral rabble-rousing from Tajikistan-born Benjamin Yusupov,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2019

Telemann's Garden

In conversation with the New York Times in 2008, Alan Gilbert remarked that just ‘because you can give a title...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2019

RAVEL Voyageur

Ravel’s music for violin and piano is easily overlooked as a facet of his output but stretches over almost his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019

MOZART String Quartets Nos 14 & 15

The Van Kuijk’s second disc of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets builds on their growing reputation as one of the foremost young...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019

MOLIQUE Chamber Music, Vol 2

I think I have found a new friend. Immediately appealing, charming and, if not greatly original in thought or language,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

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