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BRUCKNER Piano Works (Mari Kodama)

Thinking of Anton Bruckner, piano music may not be the first thing that comes to mind. There are nevertheless a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2024

BRAHMS Early & Late Piano Works (Llŷr Williams)

I reviewed an impressive two-CD set of Schumann from this pianist (2/24), and the new release suggests an affinity for...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 12/2024

JS BACH Complete Toccatas (Christophe Rousset)

The early group of seven Toccatas has long been the domain of the virtuoso harpsichordist keen to engage with Bach’s...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2024

JS BACH Cello Suites (Jean-Guihen Queyras)

Occasionally I’ll be on Facebook and a photo from 2007 will pop up as a ‘memory’. I’ll pass through a...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2024

Anja Lechner: Bach, Abel, Hume

Rosamunde Quartet founding cellist Anja Lechner is no stranger to solo recital recordings but this latest is, at least on...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2024

WALEY-COHEN Spell Book

Although she has featured on various artist-led anthologies, and not forgetting the impressive solo-violin piece Permutations for her sister Tamsin...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2024

STRAVINSKY Chamber Works

Ideas about neoclassicism have kept pace with perspectives on Classical art. Where Dumbarton Oaks once shared the dry ‘objectivity’ of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2024

NAFTEL Orchestral, Chamber and Instrumental Works

Frederick Paul Naftel (b1956) came to music aged 14, and developed an interest in composition at Manchester University, from which...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2024

HOWELLS; WOOD String Quartets

It was a happy idea to couple teacher and pupil in these first releases of the Sixth String Quartet by...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2024

CRAS; FERROUD; SOULAGE 'Invisibles'

You know you’re in unfamiliar territory when a recording’s most familiar landmark is the 1901 Cello Sonata by Jean Cras...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 12/2024

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