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DEBUSSY La Mer RAVEL La Valse. Boléro

The Swedish virtuoso Gunnar Idenstam tells us that he has toyed with the idea of arranging Debussy’s La mer for...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014

DEANE Noctuary

The greater recorded availability of Irish new music over these past two decades has enabled composers such as Raymond Deane...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

COOKE Piano Music

How aware are we of the immense influence of Tobias Matthay, an RAM teacher whose innumerable pupils included Myra Hess,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2014

Wilde Plays Chopin Vol 2

For his second Delphian Chopin disc, David Wilde offers a determined attack on conventional wisdom. Here is no ‘sick-room talent’...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 1 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29

After Brahms performed his First Piano Sonata, a friend mentioned the resemblance between its opening theme and that of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations

Because Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations usually last anywhere from 45 to 58 minutes, I wondered if the 72-and-a-half-minute timing for Christina...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

BARTON Birdsong at Dusk

Many cultural events in Australia are preceded by a Welcome to Country, a short yet beautiful ceremony in which a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014

CPE BACH Rondos and Fantasias

Although Christine Schornsheim has recorded sound and stylish JS Bach interpretations, she truly lets loose with his son Carl Philipp...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites 2, 4 & 6

If there is only one thing all cellists agree on, it is that the Bach Cello Suites are not starter...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

Verso Venezia

Seventeenth-century Venice witnessed spectacular musical developments, from the polychoral liturgical motets of Gabrieli to the establishment of Europe’s first competing...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014

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