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CHOPIN 57 Mazurkas

Listening to Janusz Olejniczak’s two-disc set of Mazurkas is like stepping back in time, to an age when interpretation of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

Pacini Plays Beethoven and Liszt

Soon to be 25, Sophie Pacini is a prodigious pianist, muscular in a way that suggests she’d be happy to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016

BARTÓK Mikrokosmos Book 5

Fortunately for us at least two very individual young musicians are currently recording Bartók’s solo piano music, players who go...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2016

Grand Tour

This disc is an unofficial sequel to British pianist John Tilbury’s album ‘For Tomasz Sikorski’, which I reviewed in Gramophone’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2016

French Elegance

This disc is aptly titled. In terms of their playing, Belgians Roeland Hendrikx and Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort tackle standards of the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

SOLER 6 Concerti for 2 Keyboards

Despite their title, Antonio Soler’s Seis Conciertos de dos organos obligados are most definitely works for two harpsichords. All but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2016

SIBELIUS Music for Violin and PIano

These national stereotypes are nothing if not persistent. In direct contrast to the cool, tight, conscientious tone offered by Baiba...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 5, 8 & 11

By my reckoning the Quatuor Debussy have now recorded eight of the 15 Shostakovich quartets, and they sound fully at...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016

SCHUBERT Piano Trios

Three leading period instrumentalists play three of the finest chamber works of the early 19th century, and the disc is...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2016

MOZART Gran Partita. Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Here are two different takes on much-loved Mozart scores, both with fair claims to authenticity. One is an arrangement of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2016

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