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ELLER 10 Lyric Pieces. Piano Sonata No 4

In any account of modern Estonian music, Heino Eller occupies a central position both creatively and culturally, his substantial output...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2013

BRITTEN Solo Cello Suites

There wasn’t exactly a dearth of recordings being made of Britten’s Cello Suites before the death of their dedicatee Mstislav...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2013

BARTÓK; HINDEMITH; PROKOFIEV Solo Violin Sonatas

This follow-up to Feng’s 2010 collection ‘Solo’ (11/10) has more of a musical thesis running through it than its predecessor’s...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2013

JS BACH Organ Works Vol II

Of the various complete Bach organ recorded sets, few consistently transport this great music out of the loft and into...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW2013

JS BACH Transcribed for Piano

Antony Gray’s three-disc collection of arrangements (62 different movements in all) is an imaginatively sourced compendium. It seems to have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2013

HIGDON; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

Hilary Hahn’s Tchaikovsky is no warhorse. Her tone remains unforced even in the most strenuous passages, and in the finale,...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2011

Beecham conducts Delius, Schubert and Wagner

How strange that it has taken the 50 years that have elapsed since Sir Thomas Beecham’s death for this fascinating...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2011

TIENSUU Chamber Music

Jukka Tiensuu (b1948) never gives clues to the meanings of his works’ titles so it is more rewarding to focus...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2011

Within

By extending the range of what’s possible on an instrument, one increases freedom while decreasing complacency, thus making possible a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2011

KAPSBERGER I Pastori di Bettelemme

The Venetian theorbist Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651) worked in Rome from 1605, composing and performing for popes, cardinals and princes....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2011

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