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IVES; BERG; WEBERN Concord

Pairing Ives with Second Viennese School composers is not usually the done thing. All the more reason then to attempt...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015

Antonio Meneses: Capriccioso

The cello has never drawn the same crowds as the violin or piano – otherwise the cellist-composers on this recording...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2015

Liza Ferschtman; Tamsin Waley-Cohen Recitals

These two recitals have the Bartók Sonata as an important constituent but their focus is quite different. With Liza Ferschtman...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015

Jorge Bolet: Ambassador from the Golden Age

This astonishing six disc tribute to Jorge Bolet, taken from concerts dating from 1937 89 and from a variety of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2015

USTVOLSKAYA 6 Piano Sonatas

Sabine Liebner on the Neos label is the place to go if you’re after a complete cycle of Galina Ustvolskaya’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015

SWEELINCK Ma Jeune Vie A Une Fin

Discs of Sweelinck’s keyboard music are still surprisingly uncommon. Robert Woolley has made a fine if unhurried start on working...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2015

Sibelius on the Ainola Piano

Sibelius’s Steinway grand was a gift from a large cohort of his supporters on his 50th birthday in 1915. That...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2015

RACHMANINOV Complete Piano Works Vol 2

If the outwardly enviable, note-perfect professionalism of so many of today’s pianists can leave you cold and dispirited, the reverse...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas K331, K570, K576

A lifetime of experience is the gift bestowed on Menahem Pressler. This thrusting and exploratory leader of the Beaux Arts...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2015

GLASS Partita for Solo Violin

Tim Fain’s combination of power, precision and deeply expressive playing has made his recordings almost as ubiquitous as Philip Glass’s...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2015

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