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PLEYEL Keyboard Trios B435; 441; 442; 448

Though Ignace Pleyel may be better known to us as a maker of pianos and music publisher, he was a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2011

HAYDN String Quartets Op 20

“Newly revised and corrected” is how Artaria proudly announced its 1801 edition of these quartets. Exciting? Not for all scholars...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2011

CAGE The Works for Percussion Vol 1

Vol 43 of Mode’s Complete Cage Edition is the first in the series to survey Cage’s music for percussion, which,...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2011

BOWEN Viola Sonatas nos 1 & 2. Cello Sonata Op 64

Saint-Saëns, a master of chamber music, considered York Bowen the finest English composer of his generation, yet for so long...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW/2011

BOCCHERINI String Quintets

The Cuarteto Casals have twice before given us discs featuring Spanish music – Arriaga (1/04), Turina and Toldrá (6/07) –...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW/2011

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

As the apogee of variation sets ripe for instrumental transformation, the Goldbergs rarely seem as absorbingly focused, crafted or quixotic...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2011

Classical Accordion

Ksenija Sidorova here demonstrates the remarkable potential of the accordion, not an instrument generally appreciated in classical circles. It was...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/2011

Songs Without Words

Pianist Julius Drake spent many years occupied with solo piano repertoire and later achieved renown as one of the world’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2011

Recital

Francesco Piemontesi (Italian-Swiss, b1983) was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship in 2009 and named by the BBC as one of its...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2011

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

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