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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 31 & 32 (Sudbin)

Yevgeny Sudbin is not an artist to go into the studio lightly and it’s a bold move to choose as...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019

Mark Bebbington: Private Passions

First recordings of two sets of piano pieces by Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen (his charismatic muse and lover) adorn...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2019

JS BACH Chorale Partitas BWV766-768 & 770 (Stephen Farr)

Here is a welcome addition to the Bach discography, with the chance to appreciate the awesome compositional skills on display...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2019

Tableaux de Provence: Works for Saxophone

The main connecting thread – one of several – linking the four works in this engaging French recital for alto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019

The Romantic Horn

Beethoven wrote his Horn Sonata for the travelling virtuoso Giovanni Punto at such speed that, on the night of the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

Marais meets Corelli

I agree with the business consultant Larry Alton when he describes the Chiller font as a ‘good choice for a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2019

Philippe Graffin: Fiddler's Blues

The big story here is the first recording of a previously undiscovered seventh unaccompanied violin sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe. Philippe...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

XENAKIS Pléïades (DeciBells)

Xenakis’s orchestral works have not entered the repertoire but those for ensemble have often found a niche; not least his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 1, 2 & 7 (Carducci Quartet)

There’s something rather fun about the idea of pairing Shostakovich’s two shortest quartets – the Seventh and First – with...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

ROMAN Golvinmusiken

If you are familiar with any of the music of Johan Helmich Roman, it is probably his Drottningholmsmusiken that you...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019

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