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HINDEMITH Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3
With this release, Markus Becker joins the mere handful of pianists who have offered Hindemith’s piano sonatas together as a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
CHOPIN 24 Preludes
Nick van Bloss is a perfectly decent pianist, whose own life story makes this achievement all the more striking: he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
CHOPIN Polonaises
For many Chopin lovers, Arthur Rubinstein’s 1930s recordings of the Polonaises are the benchmark (far preferable to his sonically inferior...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 4, 9, 10 & 11
In Beethoven’s Op 7 Sonata, Maurizio Pollini pounces on the composer’s Allegro molto e con brio directive with joyful momentum....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations
The discography of the Diabelli Variations is already distinguished but here’s a remarkable addition to it. Two performances are offered,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2013
Hungarian Works for Violin & Cello
Enterprising, engaging and full of intriguing, lesser-known names, this disc of violin-and-cello duos by Hungarian composers conceptually grows out of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2013
SCHUBERT Cello Sonata BRAHMS Cello Sonata
It’s hard not to be a bit sad for Wigmore Hall Live that they didn’t get this one but it’s...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013
A Tale of Two Cellos
This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and blended together in slow...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013
A Tale of Two Cellos
This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and blended together in slow...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013
HURLSTONE; HYDE; d'OLLONE; WIREN Piano Trios
This pair of discs on the Divine Art label brings together four consistently attractive works that defy the fashion of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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