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BRITTEN Three Cello Suites

The most striking thing about Jamie Walton in the interview that opens Paul Joyce’s film of Benjamin Britten’s three Cello...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014

BOWEN 24 Preludes. Suite Mignonne. Berceuse

York Bowen (1884-1961) became the cruel victim of passing and dismissive fashion, his lovingly crafted, lyrically haunting ideas swept aside....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 23, 31 & 32

Although Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven hardly lacks catalogue representation, this first release of live Swedish Radio performances from April 5, 1960,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 23 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3

‘Passion and Fantasy’ is the eye-catching title for Sophia Agranovich’s recital of Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and Chopin’s Fantaisie and B...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014

BARTÓK Piano Works

Normally one concludes a review with comments about sound quality, but in this case the engineering’s full-bodied piano sonority and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 2, 3 & 6 arr Viola

Finally, the Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov has completed his collection of JS Bach’s Cello Suites transcribed for viola after...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014

Do Not Go Gentle

The Bingham Quartet have long included new commissions in concerts and this disc collates works mainly written either side of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014

1917: Works for Violin and Piano

Tamsin Waley-Cohen’s love for Debussy’s Violin Sonata of 1917 led her to assemble four works for violin and piano written...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2014

SCHUBERT String Quintet D956. String Quartet D703

Myriad moods, immoderate demands and ‘unplumbed melancholy underlying even his brightest and most vivacious moments’ (WJ Turner’s description of Mozart...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014

RUBINSTEIN Piano Quartets

Having dealt comprehensively with Liszt (99 CDs for Hyperion), the indefatigable Leslie Howard has been espousing Anton Rubinstein, one of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014

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