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SCHUMANN Waldszenen. Piano Sonata No 2

Uchida and Schumann are a wonderful match: she conveys his febrile qualities with such naturalness, as was vividly demonstrated in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013

SCHUBERT Impromptus, 17 Ländler

Cordelia Williams was winner of the keyboard final of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year, a competition that,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013

PAGANINI 24 Caprices

If we agree that mastering and then recording the Paganini Caprices is the violinist’s version of climbing Everest, and acknowledge...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2013

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 2, 8, 9 & 17

The first four Ws (Who, What, Where, When) seemed clear-cut: Christian Blackshaw plays Mozart sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2012....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013

LISZT Mephisto Waltz No 1. 3 Liebesträume

Following his earlier Delphian disc of the B minor Sonata (A/07), David Wilde continues with Liszt, complementing the first Mephisto...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013

HOWELLS From Salisbury

Gramophone readers may have listened to a piece of music and experienced ‘love at first hearing’. Other works might need...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013

Hindemith & Raphael: Works for Viola Solo

It may seem that the only music for solo viola written in the middle of the 20th century was Hindemith’s,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2013

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

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