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CPE BACH Organ Sonatas

If one needed a musical pick-me-up, nothing better could refresh a jaded ear than this sparkling, generously filled disc of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017

AMBROSINI Songbook for Guitar

Is it going too far to say that Claudio Ambrosini has written, in his 1975 work for solo guitar Notturno...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2017

Twentieth Century Music for Violin & Piano

What might seem at first glance a bit of a hotchpotch of a disc, on closer acquaintance listens like a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017

SCHUMANN; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

There is much to enjoy on this DVD. Individually the young Polish musicians are all accomplished and conscientious, and their...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2017

SCHULHOFF Complete String Quartets

This is the first comprehensive set of the music for string quartet by a composer whose notated yet completely silent...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

SCHNITTKE Cello Sonata. Suite on the Old Style

Leonard Elschenbroich continues his exploration of less ubiquitous Soviet fare with this fine album dedicated to a creative voice he...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2017

REGER Piano Quintet. Cello Sonata No 4

‘Believe me, my Quintet Op 64 will make the rounds!’ declared Max Reger. Oh dear. As Parnassus Akademie’s pianist Kolja...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

RACHMANINOV; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas

No sooner had I commented on the unusual Prokofiev/Rachmaninov coupling in my Moser/Korobeinikov review (in the February issue) than this...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017

PAGANINI 24 Caprices

Interestingly, the first time Paganini’s 24 Caprices were recorded in any form was in 1940 with Ferdinand David’s piano accompaniments...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

MOZART Flute Quartets

Mozart is widely held to have detested the flute, despite the fact that he wrote a whole opera about one...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2017

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