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Minnaar: Fauré Piano Music

This recital (for it is precisely that; a DVD of the event, expertly filmed in January 2016, accompanies the SACD)...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017

CHOPIN Late Works Opp 59-64

‘I’m in love with Chopin – his music never ceases to amaze me’, Pollini is quoted as saying on the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017

Charles Richard-Hamelin: Live

A French-Canadian pianist named Hamelin, but not that one and no relation. Charles Richard-Hamelin (silver medallist at the 2015 Chopin...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017

Souvenirs d'Italie: Mr Harrach's Musical Diaries

Maurice Steger’s latest album draws on the manuscript library of Count von Harrach, an elderly musical and recorder-minded Austrian diplomat...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017

The Kreisler Story

At least two challenges face any violinist who plays Fritz Kreisler’s music. First, there are the inimitable recordings by Kreisler...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017

Caerulean

One of the most renowned clarinetists on the new music scene, Carl Rosman has worked closely with each of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017

L'Ange et le Diable

This disc’s title comes from the fact that three of its virtuoso-composers were compared in their day either to an...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017

FRANCK; SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas

It was a sensible choice for Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang to put André Previn’s Tango Song and Dance first...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2017

SAARIAHO Chamber Works for Strings 2

My colleague Andrew Mellor’s smart little analysis of the cul-de-sac into which Kaija Saariaho has driven her work during the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017

RÖNTGEN String Trios Nos 13 - 16

This review wrote itself. All the marvellous traits I noted in Vols 1 3 (2/14, 11/14, 3/16) apply here: the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017

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