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L'enfance: Fauré, Bizet, Debussy, Ravel
All too often we regard piano duets as somewhat childish pleasures but there’s nothing emotionally juvenile about any of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2013
WAGNER Transcribed for 2 Pianos
The heyday of piano ensemble transcriptions from orchestral and operatic scores more or less coincided with the height of Richard...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013
MOERAN Complete Solo Piano Music
One of the great discoveries of my youth was the Symphony in G minor of EJ Moeran. This almost went...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 07/2013
MILANO Lute Music
What better vehicle for the artistry of one of today’s most gifted lutenists could there be than the music of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2013
HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 5
With the appearance of the fifth volume of his Haydn keyboard sonata survey, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has now covered 22 sonatas...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2013
CHOPIN Sonatas & Ballades
‘A talented young pianist worth watching’ was how I summed up my generally positive review of Vassily Primakov’s 2004 all-Chopin...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013
JS BACH 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830
In the intelligent booklet-notes accompanying David Korevaar’s recording of Bach’s Partitas, the pianist discusses the music’s dance origins in extensive,...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013
Vocalise
Adam Walker, principal flute of the LSO, tells us that the music he performs here ‘has at its heart the...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 07/2013
On the Nature of Electricity and Acoustics
Folk reel to tape reel, ‘On the Nature of Electricity & Acoustics’ charts 35 years of Irish electro-acoustic music, from...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2013
Nadia Sirota: Baroque
With a CV that takes in such new music luminaries as the chamber group Alarm Will Sound and the bands...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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