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RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2

A strong case can be made for either of Rachmaninov’s two versions of the Second Piano Sonata. In the right...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2011

DEBUSSY Piano Music Vol 5

If you’re familiar with the first four volumes of Noriko Ogawa’s Debussy cycle, Vol 5 will not surprise you. In...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2011

CLEMENTI Capriccios & Variations

This enticing seventh (and final) volume of Clementi’s works for solo piano is a notable achievement on several levels. The...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2011

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 21

Alice Sara Ott, the 23-year-old German-Japanese pianist, seems to be a musician in a hurry; since signing to DG in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2011

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 31 HAYDN Piano Sonata No 62 MOZART Piano Sonata No 14

It now seems many years since 11-year-old Sarah Briggs delighted her television audience not only with tales of her beloved...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2011

BEETHOVEN Complete Bagatelles

In this, the 10th volume of Ronald Brautigam’s complete solo Beethoven, he reaches the Bagatelles. In addition to the well-known...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2011

JS BACH Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-12

Bach’s Cello Suites are much favoured by viola da gambists, double-bassists, bassoonists, lutenists and guitar players as well as viola...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW/2011

JS BACH Organ Works Vol 6

This sumptuously illustrated sixth instalment of Margaret Phillips’s complete Bach continues with clean, poised playing, devoid of artifice. The watchword...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW/2011

Along Uncharted Routes

“Improvisation over standards from the Renaissance” is this CD’s explanatory subtitle. The standards are certainly there, from Lassus’s Susanne un...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW/2011

GESUALDO Madrigals, Book 3

With his third book of madrigals, the defining features of Gesualdo’s style appear in earnest, and Delitiæ Musicæ’s complete survey...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW/2011

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