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JS BACH Trio Sonatas BWV525-530

Some of the contrasts in character between the many movements of these six sonatas that are so easily achieved on...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014

Ewald Demeyere: Harpsichord Laments of the 17th Century

Ah! Melancholia, aka ‘black bile’, yet socially fashionable in late-16th- and early-17th-century England. And wonder not why John Dowland isn’t...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014

Southwell Splendour 2

In 1998 OxRecs released a critically acclaimed disc of music released to celebrate the installation of the new Nicholson organ...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014

Tonya Lemoh: Harmonies du Soir

This intriguingly varied recital takes its title from ‘Harmonies du soir’, grandest and most expansive of Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Etudes....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

The Great Organ of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris

What gives distinction to this disc of 20th-century French organ music by the usual suspects is the recording location –...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014

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

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

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

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

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

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