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Alexander Soares: Notations & Sketches

Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019

BOULANGER; FAURÉ; MESSIAEN Preludes Vol 3 (Alexandra Dariescu)

The UK-based Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu continues her survey of various prelude cycles with Fauré and Messiaen. It commences with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Six English Suites (Masaaki Suzuki)

Forkel’s pioneering biography of Bach may mention a suite ‘made for an Englishman of rank’, but that is where the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2019

Jayson Gillham: Romantic Bach

Jayson Gillham’s is the most enjoyable and worthwhile disc of hyphenated Bach since Hannes Minnaar’s (Cobra, 1/14) and Víkingur Ólafsson’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Kuusisto)

There are interesting aspects to this set, the first to strike me being the resonant acoustic of the Österåker Church...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019

Themes and Variations (Guy Johnston, Tom Poster)

It takes a particularly selfless kind of cellist to begin a recital with Beethoven’s Bei Männern Variations. Donald Tovey once...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

Ascent (Matthew Lipman & Henry Kramer)

Another chipping from Shostakovich’s workbench here receives its first recording, in the shape of an Impromptu almost certainly composed for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

G WILLIAMS Chamber Music

Grace Williams isn’t exactly neglected in the concert hall – at least not in Wales, where every orchestral musician, amateur...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets 5 & 7; Piano Quintet

Shostakovich’s Fifth Quartet is one of his most demanding, certainly in terms of physical, emotional and intellectual stamina, and while...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019

SCHUMANN Piano Trios (Horszowski Trio)

Leif Ove Andsnes and Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff’s full-throated, richly romantic accounts of the Schumann piano trios came as something...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

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