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GNATTALI 'Moto Contínio' Piano Works (Luís Rabello)
Radamés Gnattali (1906‑88) is apparently a familiar name to virtually all Brazilian musicians, though less so perhaps to musicians in...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
Valentina Lisitsa: Chopin
‘Do we know how Chopin ought to be played or do we just think we do?’ asks the Ukrainian-born pianist...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022
BEETHOVEN; BRAHMS; MOZART 'Variations' (Simon Trpčeski)
Simon Trpčeski’s new Linn recording of masters of the variation is likely to inspire admiration and astonishment in equal measure....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
JS BACH 'Bach from Lincoln' (Colin Walsh)
Unlike his earlier ‘JS Bach from Lincoln’ album (Priory, 11/18), Colin Walsh has avoided any of the big headline-grabbing works...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2022
JS BACH Complete Cello Suites (Bruno Philippe)
‘I am convinced that honesty and faith in one’s ideas can result in a form of individuality’, claims the French...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022
JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (James Ehnes)
Last June I reviewed James Ehnes’s superb recordings of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas, recorded at his home over a few...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022
The Saxophone Craze: Homage to Rudy Wiedoeft
A notable venture of the Covid pandemic was Jonathan Radford’s exploration of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ with Ashley Fripp, throwing a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022
Between Two Worlds: Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland
Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters reflects, in its title at least, TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, the first of which, ‘Burnt...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022
SCHOENBERG String Quartets Nos 1 & 3 (Gringolts Quartet)
Volume 1 of this series was welcomed in these pages (10/17) for values of architectural clarity and expressive restraint which...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2022
SCHNITTKE; SHOSTAKOVICH; SILVESTROV 'Outcast'
This is a genuinely remarkable disc. I say this not from any association of its contents with current events, but...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022
RAFF Complete Works For Cello & Piano
Pity Joachim Raff. Pity any fine second-rank composer who had the misfortune to work within the orbit of Liszt, Brahms...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2022
MOZART 'The Palatine Sonatas', K301-306
The six violin sonatas Mozart composed in Mannheim and Paris during the spring and summer of 1778 don’t often appear...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022
LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3; Op 5, Nos. 5-8
It’s strange that there aren’t more recordings of Leclair’s Op 5 Violin Sonatas, given how much they have going for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022
KRÜGER Ain’t Nuthin’ But Fairy Dust
Given clubbing’s ubiquity, it’s surprising that there are so few club-culture-themed compositions. An outlier is Richard Baker’s sensuously thrilling The...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022
DVORÁK; MANSURIAN; MARTIN Piano Trios (Delta Piano Trio)
Previous releases of Taneyev and Borodin (Naxos) and Shostakovich and Auerbach (Odradek) left little doubt as to the Delta Trio’s...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022
DOPPLER; KULHAU Romantic & Virtuoso Music For Flute and Piano
If you’re not an expert on all things flute, the chances are that the names Franz and Karl Doppler and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022
CHOPIN Piano Concertos (Emmanuel Despax. Chamber versions)ertos (Emmanuel Despax. Chamber versions)
When the string quintet (two violins, viola, cello, and double bass) versions of the Chopin concertos appear in the antiquarian...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
BRAHMS; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets
The Dalí Quartet and Olga Kern give a plainspoken account of Brahms’s F minor Quintet, one that’s rather short on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022
BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op 34. String Quintet Op 111
In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022
Stockholm Diary
All the composers included on this intriguing and beautiful album hail from cool climes but lived (or spent significant time)...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022
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