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Variations for Judith

To pay tribute to ex-Spitafields Festival director Judith Serota, 11 composers each contributed a short ‘reflection’ based on JS Bach’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012

Spanish Nights

In his booklet-note, legendary classical guitarist Pepe Romero, member of that great ‘first’ family of guitarists The Romeros, tells of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2012

Nelson Freire: Brasileiro

Nelson Freire, imperceptibly assuming the mantle of the piano’s elder statesman, is now in his late sixties. There are few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

Nobuyuki Tsujii Live at Carnegie Hall

It so happened that I set about reviewing this DVD during the first week of the Paralympics. The sight of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

SPOHR Piano Sonata, Op 125 ONSLOW Piano Sonata, Op 2

Spohr’s symphonies – all recorded by Howard Shelley, incidentally, in his alter ego as conductor – Nonet, Octet and clarinet...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 4

Christa Landon’s numbering of the sonatas to 62 in the Wiener Urtext edition is followed, though Georg Feder (The New...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012

FRANÇAIX Music for Piano, Piano Duet & Two Pianos

Martin Jones is one of Britain’s most-recorded pianist, with complete sets of Mendelssohn and Brahms (to name but two) offset...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The French Suites

Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

Silfra

‘Silfra’, described in Hilary Hahn and Volker Bertelmann’s booklet-notes as ‘the culmination of a two-year exploratory improvisation project’, serves up...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

Quartet Choreography

Any release spunky enough to embrace Ligeti’s and Finnissy’s Second Quartets – not to mention Stravinsky’s Three Pieces and Lutosławski’s...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012

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