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Review of ENESCU Complete Solo Piano Works

ENESCU Complete Solo Piano Works

Luiza Borac reset the bar in Enescu’s solo piano music in her survey (2003 05), overtaking Aurora Ienei (Electrecord/Olympia –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2015

Review of DEBUSSY Preludes Books 1 & 2

DEBUSSY Preludes Books 1 & 2

Francesco Piemontesi, who numbers Brendel, Perahia, Weissenberg and Ousset among his teachers, offers a masterly account of Debussy’s Préludes. Yet...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015

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Review of CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas

CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas

In a recently posted internet interview, Russian-born Dmitri Alexeev discusses his role as a juror of the Chopin Competition and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 14, 22, 26, 27, 28 & 49

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 14, 22, 26, 27, 28 & 49

Paavali Jumppanen’s latest double-CD release proves the most consistently engaging so far in his Beethoven sonata cycle. The rhythmically astute...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2015

Review of JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

A frustrating issue. Midori’s careful and polished addition to the extensive catalogue of recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2015

Review of Dancing Day: Music for Christmas

Dancing Day: Music for Christmas

The Cambridge choral tradition has continued in the US, thanks to the advocacy of John Scott, organ scholar at St...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015

Review of The Jean Sibelius Edition - 150th Anniversary Box set

The Jean Sibelius Edition - 150th Anniversary Box set

Few pioneering recordings from any era burn with greater passionate intensity or recreative spark than those set down in London...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015

Review of SHOSTAKOVICH Michelangelo Poems LISZT Petraca Sonnets

SHOSTAKOVICH Michelangelo Poems LISZT Petraca Sonnets

Dmitri Hvorostovsky has always been just as comfortable on the recital platform as on the operatic stage, a state of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015

Review of Minoritenkonvent: Manuscript XIV 726 from the Convent of the Minorites

Minoritenkonvent: Manuscript XIV 726 from the Convent of the Minorites

<p>Today Biber is probably the best known of the mid- to late‑17th-century violin virtuoso...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015

Review of HANDEL Partenope

HANDEL Partenope

‘[Senesino] put me in a sweat in telling me that Parthenope was likely to be brought on the stage, for...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015

 

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