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Mozart Piano Quartets, K478 & K493

It is appropriate that Malcolm Bilson, as a kind of by-product of his Mozart piano concerto recordings, should have made...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1989

Scriabin Preludes, Op 11; Shostakovich Preludes, Op 34

Complementing his early and outstanding Collins disc of Scriabin’s Mazurkas (6/94) Artur Pizarro now gives us the 24 Preludes, Op....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997

Onslow Sonatas for Piano Four-Hands

Of all the music of Georges Onslow (1784-1853) the two sonatas for piano duet are most worthy of revival. The...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1999

Toch String Quartets Nos. 11 and 13

Toch wrote 13 string quartets in all (though he had seemingly begun to sketch a 14th at the time of...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

This is the American harpsichordist Elaine Thornburgh's first solo record to be issued here; and what a splendid debut she...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991

Brahms Piano Works

This is another valuable addition to Idil Biret's fine series of Brahms's solo piano music, the recordings of which were...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Fred Hersch & Bill Frisell - Songs We Know

This intimate duo exploration strips a set of standards down to their essential spine. Hersch had fleeting contact with Frisell...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Dohnanyi Piano Works

Dohnanyi died in 1960 at the age of 82, but (as he pointed out ruefully when he came to the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1993

Richter plays Beethoven & Brahms

This record admirably couples together two recordings which show Richter at his very finest. Anyone who has heard him live...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1988

Gesualdo Madrigals, Book 6

With their two latest discs, the Kassiopeia Quintet conclude a valuable intégrale of the notorious Prince of Venosa’s madrigals. If...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2009

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