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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 31 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21

Playing as if before a small late-night audience of friends, Menahem Pressler gives us a warmth and speculation far removed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Piano Vol 13

Vol 13 of Ronald Brautigam’s cycle encompassing Beethoven’s complete solo piano output sheds fresh light on familiar and relatively obscure...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier

Recorded between 1998 and 2001, and first released in two parts a decade ago, these four discs present all 48...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH 'Italian' Concerto. 'French' Overture

Listeners used to a wild and woolly Bach Chromatic Fantasia might find Steven Devine’s italicised phrasing overly studied in the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014

AHO Works with and for Organ

Aho’s writing for organ certainly betrays the same ear for instrumental colour as his orchestral works, and it is refreshing...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014

some other time

Lara Downes says ‘this music holds a nostalgia for another time in American music – a golden generation when concert...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2014

The Silver Album

‘The Silver Album’ has been made to mark ‘a level of artistic partnership that is rare, even in the highest...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2014

Martha Argerich and Friends Live from Lugano 2013

Splendid news that one of the annual musical treats from EMI has been continued by Warner Classics but this selection...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014

Belle époque

The Debussy String Quartet looks a little lonely on this new disc without the usual Ravel quartet next to it...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

READ THOMAS Chamber and Piano Works

This disc of chamber and piano works by Augusta Read Thomas follows on from that of her orchestral music (4/14)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014

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