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BRAHMS Serenade No 1 SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

This pair of one-off live performances relives and condenses the battle over music in the second half of the 19th...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2014

BRAHMS, DOHNANYI String Quartets No 1

An interesting coupling, Brahms and Dohnányi being cut from similar bales of cloth, the younger composer’s First Quartet composed in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

BLANC String Quintets Nos 3, 4 & 7

A large proportion of Adolphe Blanc’s output was chamber music, and he was much practised in it, with a strength...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014

Jenny Lin: Night Stories

Jenny Lin has always shown a knack for thematic programme-building, and this collection of pieces inspired by the night ranges...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014

STRAVINSKY Piano Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonata No 1

Armenian-born but Italian-based pianist Diana Gabrielyan presents an intriguing recital of works by four 20th-century composers ‘whose music has almost...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014

VISÉE Confidences Galantes

For his second recording devoted to the music of Robert de Visée, guitarist and lutenist to Louis XIV and colleague...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2014

SEABOURNE Steps Volume 4: Libro di Canti Italiano

Previous releases of piano music from Peter Seabourne (9/13) gave notice of a composer wholly at ease in the solo...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Grande Sonata SCHARWENKA Piano Sonata No 2

It takes a real virtuoso to make the gnarly, block-like piano-writing of Tchaikovsky’s underrated Grande Sonate sound pianistically idiomatic and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Carnaval

Kirill Gerstein writes a thoughtful booklet-note musing on the fact that music’s very elusiveness means that we can create our...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

LEIGHTON Missa de Gloria. Six Fantasies on Hymn Tunes

This is the first time Kenneth Leighton’s organ music has all been recorded by one player on one instrument. To...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2014

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