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VILLA-LOBOS Complete Solo Piano Works Vol 3

This is the first disc of Marcelo Bratke’s Villa-Lobos survey to have come my way (previous instalments included Ciclo brasileiro,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2013

TURINA Coins de Séville. Contemplación

Jordi Masó’s pilgrimage through the complete piano music of Joaquín Turina now evokes the composer’s native city of Seville. Here,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2013

HANDEL Suites for Keyboard HWV428, 427, 432

In her personal and engaging notes, Daria van den Bercken, a Dutch pianist who numbers Menahem Pressler among her teachers,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2013

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 2 GRIEG Piano Sonata Op 7

After storming the heights on his disc of Prokofiev’s ‘War’ Sonatas (A/12), Boris Giltburg, the recent winner of the Brussels...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2013

DEBUSSY L'isle Joyeuse. Images Book I. Etudes Book II. Estampes

Nelson Goerner is now established as one of the finest pianists around today, another name to add to the lustrous...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 14 Nos 1 & 2; Op 22; Op 26

With the fourth volume of his Beethoven sonatas, Martin Roscoe reaches some of the more unsung works (if that description...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013

Sounds, Sweet Airs and the Art of Longing

There’s a natural affinity between Baroque music and the folk tradition. The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, violinist David Greenberg and of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2013

Kreek's Notebook: Spiritual Songs from the Nordic States

The Choir of Royal Holloway, of whose previous incarnation I was once a member, is these days a bustling professional...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2013

Ghirlanda Sacra Venezia, 1625

‘Ghirlanda Sacra’ (Venice, 1625) is an anthology of 44 motets for solo voice and basso continuo compiled by Leonardo Simonetti,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013

Down By the Sea

Blossom Street was founded at York University in 2003 before gravitating to London. The ensemble’s second disc for Naxos, a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW2013

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