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GRAUPNER Trio Sonatas
The 1990s fashion for dispensing as many recordings as possible of ‘newly discovered’ Baroque music did not always guarantee the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015
FUENTES Space Factory III-VI
Arturo Fuentes is a Mexican composer born in 1975 currently living in Austria, whose music has attracted sufficient attention to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintets
Two composers in particular spring out as influences on these two very different quintets: Schumann in Op 1, most specifically...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
Journey to Aldeburgh: Young Britten
It might have seemed that there could not be any more early works by Britten waiting to be discovered but...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2015
BRAHMS Piano Trios
A feature of this issue is the inclusion of both versions of the Op 8 Trio – the original of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3
These impressive performances come into direct competition with the set released last year by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang. Recorded...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 - 11
It isn’t difficult to feel confident as the Cypress Quartet launch into the first movement of Op 59 No 1....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
The Usher Hall Organ Vol 2
Ten years on from his first recording for Delphian of the (then) newly restored Norman and Beard in the Usher...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015
Kristinn Árnason: Transfiguratio
On the surface, prize-winning Icelandic guitarist Kristinn Árnason’s latest recording contains few surprises: a classic recital comprising chronologically ordered pieces...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2015
Carolin Widmann: Reflections
Carolin Widmann is an outstandingly enterprising artist at a time when many leading violinists are content to stick with the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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