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Javier Perianes plays Chopin and Debussy

One could quite easily listen to this beautifully recorded disc simply as one which alternates short works by Chopin with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2, Nos 11 - 21

Not every track on these three CDs is perfection but they proclaim an artist of exceptional calibre establishing a position...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2014

JS BACH Chorales and Chorale Preludes

Is this the start of a recording age when non-organists are being challenged to hear Bach’s organ music afresh? Robert...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014

JS BACH Inventions and Sinfonias

Bach himself wrote that his Two- and Three-Part Inventions were meant, among other things, to foster ‘a cantabile style in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2014

CPE BACH Württemberg Sonatas

Mahan Esfahani’s debut recital recording commemorates the tercentenary of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 88), whose collection of six sonatas...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014

Transfigurations

The title of this disc, ‘Transfigurations’, is an umbrella for Les Esprits Animaux’s latest journey into the musical past, although...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2014

JANÁČEK; BARTÓK Sonatas for Violin and Piano

A fascinating, satisfying programme, bringing together three composers whose work is rooted in their local cultures, absorbed to form highly...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014

Into the Ravine

This is not the first time that works by Michael Berkeley, John McCabe and Adrian Williams have rubbed shoulders together...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2014

Green: String Quartets by Schumann and Kurtág

‘Green’ is the final volume in a three-disc series by the Amaryllis Quartet that combines contemporary works for string quartet...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2014

Between Worlds: Avi Avital

With mandolin players such as Avi Avital and Chris Thile doing such wondrous things with Bach et al, you might...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2014

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