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ATTERBURG; RANGSTRÖM String Quartets

The compositional history of Atterberg’s quartets is not straightforward. The First, Op 2, was composed in 1907 08 but Atterberg...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

Treasures of the Empfindsamkeit

All too often the extraneous noises involved in both the operation and the recording of a clavichord can be louder...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

Christina Sandsengen: Shades and Contrasts

There’s no getting around it: Christina Sandsengen is pretty easy on the eye. But the playing on this entry-level recital,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2014

Herbert Schuch: Invocation

This thoughtfully themed recital testifies to the wide terms of reference that the Romanian-born pianist Herbert Schuch has at his...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

MESSIAEN La Fauvette Passerinette

In 2012, 20 years after Messiaen’s death, Peter Hill discovered among his sketches an 11 minute piece that might have...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2014

Wanda Landowska: The Complete Piano Recordings

APR’s three-disc album of Wanda Landowska the pianist, rather than Landowska the iconic harpsichordist, throws down the gauntlet at present-day...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014

SCHUMANN Variations and Fantasiestücke

Andreas Staier continues his exploration of Schumann in the company of a richly coloured, eloquent instrument by Erard, which dates...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas

This recital is all about contrasts: at its centre, that most unpianistic of pieces – the Wanderer Fantasy – bookended...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas

In the main, Igor Kamenz’s Scarlatti recital serves up unsatisfying interpretations of favourite pieces. Notice the purposeless elongations at phrase...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 5 & 6.

Though the track list has it as Op 38, the Fifth Sonata should really be listed as Op 135, the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

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