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BEETHOVEN Complete Variations for Piano, Vol 2 ( Cédric Tiberghien)
Cédric Tiberghien’s notion of mixing things up, done with such mastery in the first volume of his complete Beethoven variations...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
JS BACH Organ Works Vol 5 (Masaaki Suzuki)
As with Vol 4 of Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach series (A/23), this new disc was recorded in Grauhof’s Stiftskirche St Georg,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Anastasia Kobekina: Venice
Silvestrov, Dowland, Shaw, Rota, Brian Eno … none of these names immediately suggest Venice, but the fact that they appear...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2024
A Room of Her Own
‘A Room of Her Own’ continues the Neave Trio’s exploration of works by female composers begun four years ago with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The Golden Hour: Francoeur, Rebel, Leclair
The hour referenced in the title is the period in the early decades of the 18th century when Italian influence...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2024
SCHUMANN Works with Wind Instruments
Whatever you think of Schumann’s orchestrational abilities, he had a marvellous sense of instrumental character. How perfectly suited the three...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
SCHUBERT Octet (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Soloists)
While clarinettists and violinists – horn players, too – may disagree, Schubert’s hedonistic Octet has always seemed to me virtually...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
SCHENCK L’Echo du Danube
For someone who had never even heard of Johann Schenck, two discs totalling almost two hours of his music is...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2024
PEJAČEVIĆ Chamber Music
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Michael Barenboim)
Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
KORNGOLD String Sextet TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence
Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
FAURÉ; GRIEG; R STRAUSS '1883'
Two sonatas written in 1883, Strauss’s the work of a precociously gifted 16-year-old who would up his game four years...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024
EASTMAN Femenine
The rise of Julius Eastman as one of the most significant composers of his generation remains one of the most...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
DVOŘÁK; GIDDENS; PRICE String Quartets 'But Not My Soul'
Florence Price’s Second Quartet (1935) may not, quite, reach the level of Dvořák’s celebrated American Quartet but it is a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2024
CRUMB 'Complete Crumb Edition, Vol 21'
Long in the making perhaps but, 42 years and 20 releases on, Bridge has fulfilled its plan for a Complete...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2024
COOPER Oculus
For evidence of the blurred boundaries that keep shifting between music for the concert hall and compositions written for film...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
BUSONI Violin Sonatas (Nicola Bignami)
In his June 1937 editorial, Compton Mackenzie remarked that Elgar once told him that he considered Busoni ‘the greatest musical...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Rachel Kolly)
On first hearing, this new set of Brahms violin sonatas by Rachel Kolly and Christian Chamorel makes a curious impression:...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS String Sextets (Grand Trio Vilnius)
Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
BRAHMS The String Quartets (Quatuor Agate)
The namesake of France’s Quatuor Agate is an ornamental gemstone. ‘Agate’ also alludes to the group’s affinity for Brahms, whose...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024
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