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SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus Op 90. Piano Sonata D959

After launching his Schubert cycle in bold fashion with the final sonata, D960, Barry Douglas continues with two other works...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017

REGER Complete Organ Works

The statistics are impressive. Seventeen CDs (one of which is given over to a conversation – entirely in German –...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017

MENDELSSOHN Organ Sonatas

Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonatas, Op 65, date from the last part of his truncated career (1844) and were commissioned by the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017

LISZT Transcriptions of Vocal Works

Even today Liszt remains seriously underestimated as a song composer. Like his adored Schubert, simple lyrics of scant significance could...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017

David Fray plays Chopin

Remarkably, David Fray had kept Chopin out of his active repertoire for 15 years before recording this disc. It’s perhaps...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017

Olga Jegunova: Poetic Piano Sonatas

Poetry and music make for natural bedfellows and so Olga Jegunova’s generally pleasing programme of ‘Poetic Piano Sonatas’, in this...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

BARTÓK Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion

Had Alfred Cortot recorded Bartók the results may have sounded a little like this: in other words, rhythmically free, colourful...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

JS BACH Partitas for Harpsichord BWV825-830

Bach the inexhaustible. What we know about his music, from musicologists such as Christoph Wolff and Michael Marissen, has been...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017

Kristian Krogsøe: A Tribute to J S Bach

This CD’s ingenious programme celebrates the influence of Bach on 19th- and 20th-century composers, and its seven pieces fall neatly...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 03/2017

BACH; BARTÓK; BOULEZ Works for Solo Violin

‘It is a concert!’ begins Michael Barenboim in the engaging booklet-notes he’s written to accompany this recording. And indeed it...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017

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