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DVOŘÁK; SUK Works for Violin and Piano

Antje Weithaas and Silke Avenhaus make a real duo partnership. It’s obvious they’ve worked in a detailed way at these...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 08/2011

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Historic indeed: the Op 5 pair (1796) appear to be the first cello sonatas with a written-out piano part. But...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue:

LISZT Harmonies du Soir

Some piano recital discs send you scuttling to the score to check whether the composer really did write what you’ve...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2011

Thibaudet plays Chopin and Liszt

Both these discs (previously unissued in the UK) were made long before Thibaudet’s years at Decca, and the Liszt in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2011

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations, Op 120

Behold Paul Lewis, a sensitive, cultured and relatively young pianist, determined to thoroughly plot out Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations with methodical,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011

ALBÉNIZ Iberia 1 GRANADOS Goyescas MOMPOU Variations

Sebastian Stanley is a young English pianist of Spanish origin who suitably entitles his programme El amor y la muerte,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2011

de Niese: Beauty of the Baroque

Hailed for the unlikely feat of putting the “sex into Sussex” after her charismatic Cleopatra for the Glyndebourne Festival, Danielle...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2011

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

Never one to understate a case, Wolf dubbed his Italian Songbook “the most original and artistically perfect of all my...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2011

MOZART Requiem

Preferences for Mozart’s ever-beguiling Requiem are now as often based on the edition used as on the performers or performance...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2011

Calleja: The Maltese Tenor

Here Joseph Calleja has decisively entered the Three Tenors zone – and I wish he’d waited a few more years....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2011

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