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Antonio Vaz Lemes: Sonata Brasileira

Here are four sonatas by four Brazilian composers whose careers span three generations. With one arguable exception, their work is...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

Pleasures of the Imagination

Eighteenth-century harpsichord music by British composers seldom gets much attention compared to German and French ones and Scarlatti, so although...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016

Jose Iturbi: The Victor & HMV Solo Recordings

During the 1940s, the Spanish pianist of Basque ancestry José Iturbi made no fewer than nine Hollywood films, usually playing...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016

WEINBERG Solo Violin Sonatas SHOSTAKOVICH 3 Fantastic Dances

The sonata for solo string instrument is a genre Weinberg made more or less his own in the Soviet Union,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

SCRIABIN Complete Etutdes

From the first prelude in B major to the last one in no designated key, the 90 miniatures on this...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2016

ROTA Piano Works

Considering his formidable keyboard facility, it’s surprising that Nino Rota composed relatively few original piano works, although his celebrated film...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

REGER Solo Violin Sonatas

JS Bach hovers very audibly behind of these four wonderful works, sometimes, metaphorically speaking, even stepping forwards to take the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016

LISZT Angelus: Sacred Piano Music

Via Crucis, Liszt’s startling late-period masterpiece, employs tortuous chromaticism and violent dissonance to create a far more ‘graphic’ evocation of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016

DOHNÁNYI Piano Works

Daniel Röhm (b1974, Böblingen, Germany) is a new name to me but a pianist who emerges from this recital with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2016

BRAHMS Solo Piano Works

With all of the inter opus mixing and matching characterising the first five volumes of Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle, a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

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