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CHOPIN Mazurkas, Ecossaises and Waltzes

Another Chopin recital, a recording debut, and another gifted young Pole. Marek Bracha, fresh from his studies in Warsaw and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Evangélion

Alessandro Marangoni follows his disc of the two piano concertos (9/12) with a first complete recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Evangélion (‘The...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

BRAHMS Solo Piano Works Vol 4

Volume 4 in Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle-in-progress mixes and matches short pieces culled from various opus number groups with three...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4

The Beethoven sonata cycle that Jonathan Biss launched on Avie now reaches its halfway mark via Meyer Media with Vol...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015

ALKAN Chanson de la folle au bord de la mer

Vol 4 of Vincenzo Maltempo’s Alkan consists of works which he considers better suited to his 1899 Erard instrument than...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

AHO Works for Solo Piano

Kalevi Aho may not be as well known for his solo music as for his orchestral but he makes his...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2015

Kitty Whately: This Other Eden

Since winning the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2011, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately has been gradually building her reputation in both concert...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015

Praga Magna

The reign of Rudolf II (1576-1611) marked the zenith of Prague as an imperial capital. But whereas Rudolf’s patronage of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015

Sunhae Im: Orfeo(s)

Sunhae Im, the Korean soprano familiar from her contributions to René Jacobs’s recordings of Mozart operas, here turns to concert...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015

St Peter's Singers: One Equal Music

This impressively wide collection of pieces comes from the formidable Leeds-based choir, the St Peter’s Singers, recording in Frank Matcham’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2015

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