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Thomas Gould: Bach to Parker

Bach is the arbiter of many good and different things, and it’s no coincidence that the only composers paired with...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015

SCRIABIN Complete Poèmes

Initially idolised by a small coterie, Scriabin was also vilified by those who placed reason above passion, clarity above obscurity....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2015

RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin, Volume 2

As with its predecessor (9/14), the second of four projected releases in this superbly engineered download-only Rameau cycle features a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2010

PIATTI 12 Caprices for Solo Cello

Alfredo Piatti, born in Bergamo in 1822, settled in London in the 1840s. Here, in addition to his career as...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Piano Works: Neglected Treasures

‘Neglected Treasures’ promises the CD cover. This is surely stretching a point with the two variation sets, on ‘Ah, vous...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015

MOZART Keyboard Music Vols 5, 6 & 7

Mozart’s solo keyboard music inhabits a somewhat isolated corner. Great Mozartians from Clifford Curzon to Alfred Brendel to Clara Haskil...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015

CHOPIN Complete Etudes

A famous pianist (I shan’t say who) to whom I was speaking recently said I really should hear this young...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015

CHOPIN Etudes SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes

Two new sets of Chopin Etudes from two Russians. They’re presented quite differently, Lev Vinocour gravely introduced as ‘a rare...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015

WAGNER Parsifal

‘Who is the grail?’ Parsifal’s apparently naive question receives an ingeniously literal answer at the climax of a Communion scene...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015

VERDI Il Trovatore

Dmitri Tcherniakov has nothing to say about Il trovatore, and he says it badly. There is no doubt, after a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015

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