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JS BACH Mass in B minor
With major Bach vocal works now appearing on Hyperion, notably under Stephen Layton, the absence of an à la mode...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
JS BACH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
CHOPIN Preludes
It says a lot for this disc that, when Gramophone’s Editor chose it as his Recording of the Month and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014
Murray Perahia plays Chopin
A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As...
Reviewed by James Jolly in issue: 3/2011
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas
How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Sacred Love
Pushkin, Blok, Gogol, Pasternak: some fine Russian writers come together here. Their elusive and allusive verses both invite and defy...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014
BAX Four Orchestral Pieces
Composed in Rathgar, Dublin, and powerfully evocative of the County Wicklow landscape, Bax’s Four Orchestral Pieces were first heard in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014
A Tribute To Penderecki
As Poland’s most famous living composer, Penderecki might expect to have been feted on his 80th birthday, as indeed it...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
Music for Remembrance
This is an exquisite performance of the Duruflé Requiem, beautifully evoking the inherent intimacy of the version with chamber orchestra...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014
Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol 3
This third helping of Eton Choirbook music will gladden all those interested in this fascinating repertory. The commitment shown to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014
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
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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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