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Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21. Wandererfantasie

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21. Wandererfantasie

How do you interpret Molto moderato as a tempo in the first movement of D960? Awkward question, which probably explains...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Works

SCHUBERT Piano Works

Bertrand Chamayou, on his first disc for Erato, offers a kind of Schubertiade of the mind – and it proves...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014

Review of SCHNITTKE Complete Piano Sonatas

SCHNITTKE Complete Piano Sonatas

Alfred Schnittke may not have written the most idiomatic and finger-friendly piano music of his time. Yet he surely understood...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2014

Review of ROUSSEL Piano Music Vol 1

ROUSSEL Piano Music Vol 1

Following five issues of Roussel’s orchestral music, Naxos now gives us the first of a three-volume set of the piano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

Review of MOZART Piano Sonatas K282, 310, 330 & 570

MOZART Piano Sonatas K282, 310, 330 & 570

William Youn is a young Korean pianist who plans to record the complete Mozart piano sonatas over a five-year period....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

Review of HANDEL The Eight Great Suites

HANDEL The Eight Great Suites

John Cluer published Handel’s Suites de pièces pour le clavecin in November 1720. Hyperion’s set by harpsichordist Paul Nicholson (6/95)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014

Review of GUERAU Complete Works for Guitar

GUERAU Complete Works for Guitar

Recorded between 2010 and 2013, the three discs that comprise this box-set open up for the listener a strange, intricate...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014

Review of JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5

Let’s hope that this debut recording by the prize-winning Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann is the first of a two-disc set....

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2014

Review of Magdalena Kožená: Prayer

Magdalena Kožená: Prayer

Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená believes it is ‘impossible to draw a line between the religious and the personal’. It’s a philosophy...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2014

Review of Marie et Marion: Motets and Chansons from 13th-century France

Marie et Marion: Motets and Chansons from 13th-century France

Twenty years ago, Anonymous 4 had the absurd courage to issue a disc entirely confined to motets in the 13th-century...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 05/2014


 

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