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WIDOR Organ Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Wading through the assemblage of quotations and oblique references which constitute the booklet-notes for this latest release in Joseph Nolan’s...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014

STEVENSON Passacaglia on DSCH

Here we have the seventh commercially released recording of Ronald Stevenson’s 1962 Passacaglia on DSCH, based on the four-note D-E...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Moments Musicaux

With this programme, where concentrated lyricism is sandwiched between two storming masterpieces, Konstanze Eickhorst makes her bid as an inclusive...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014

Garrick Ohlsson plays Liszt Vol 2

Compared to the full-bodied sound of Lisitsa’s Liszt recital (reviewed above), Garrick Ohlsson’s is ‘cabined, cribbed, confined’ – not unappealing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014

Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt

One could hardly guess from the demure pose struck by Decca’s photogenic soloist for her CD’s booklet that she can...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014

FRANCK Symphonic organ works

Given that Franck pioneered the concept of the orchestral organ, and with his Grand Pièce symphonique of 1863 effectively created...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 2. 24 Preludes

Jean-Philippe Collard was a familiar presence in these pages in the 1970s and ’80s, less so in the succeeding years....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 11, 18 & 28

Exquisite in taste is the slow movement of Op 22, a beautifully paced Adagio, in the hands of Angela Hewitt....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014

Talking Microtonal Blues: The House of Bedlam

Nonclassical continues to go where other alternative labels fear to tread with this release by House of Bedlam – the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2014

Sonnerie & other portraits: French Baroque chamber works

This is a most delightful recital of early-18th-century French Baroque chamber music. The works have been carefully chosen and comprise...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2014

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