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JS BACH Goldberg Variations

Beatrice Rana has been making waves since her teens, notably at the 2013 Van Cliburn competition, where she won Silver...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

MOZART Violin Sonatas Vol 3

If you are going to play Mozart’s fragile childhood sonatas ‘for keyboard with violin accompaniment’ on modern instruments – always...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

D MATTHEWS Complete Piano Trios

Is it a British thing? Confronted with composers who write fresh, communicative music, rooted but not trapped in tradition, we…well,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica, Metamorphosen

François-Xavier Roth’s Strauss series with his SWR orchestra has been garnering glowing reviews in these pages. This new instalment emphatically...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH Orchestral Suites Nos 1, 3 & 4

Scholars speculate that some or all of Bach’s extant orchestral suites originated many years before their earliest surviving Leipzig sources....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

As has often been the case since his Bach Pilgrimage of 2000, the John Eliot Gardiner of this new, second...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017

FARINA Sonate e Canzoni

I confess my eyes lit up at the sight of this release from Leila Schayegh, the Swiss violinist whose version...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2017

TELEMANN Sonatas, Sonatinas and Fantasias

Just when you thought there might be a break in these pages from 2016’s steady flow of recordings marking Telemann’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2017

RAVEL; PROKOFIEV; STRAUSS Violin Sonatas

Tobias Feldmann and Boris Kusnezow make their debut on Alpha with this unusually titled disc which, the 25-year-old German violinist...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

HVOSLEF Chamber Works No III

LAWO continues its series devoted to the chamber music of Ketil Hvoslef (Vol 1 was reviewed in 4/15) with this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2017

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