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SCHUBERT Late Piano Sonatas

Just to clarify, this latest Schubert release is a mix of Paul Lewis old and new. The last two sonatas...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/14

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 6 & 15

Aside from the clear yet somewhat bright engineering, the first thing an astute listener will notice about this Mozart recital...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014

My Favourite Dowland

After penning Farewell, which Paul O’Dette describes as Dowland’s greatest solo lute work, the composer was to live for 30...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2014

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

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