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Eileen Joyce: Complete Parlophone & Columbia Solo Recordings, 1933-45

Eileen Joyce (1912‑91) was an astonishing Australian child prodigy who was born in a tent, grew up in squalor and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1 RAVEL Miroirs. Sonatine

Given a free choice of concerto, anyone who opts for Saint-Saëns’s Fifth for the finals of a major competition is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011

LISZT Piano Wks

For her second recorded tribute to the Liszt year Idil Biret offers a richly inclusive programme ranging from the Etude...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2011

COUPERIN Complete Works for Harpsichord

‘I would argue that he was the greatest of the Couperins’, writes harpsichordist Richard Egarr of Louis (c1626-1661), the uncle...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2011

'Five Pieces'

Graduates in visual arts and literature respectively, Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana convey no mean musical chemistry in a recital that...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2011

STRAUSS Piano Quartet. Cello Sonata. Capriccio

Strauss’s Piano Quartet in C minor is not among his more celebrated early works, even though it won first prize...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011

PURCELL 12 Sonatas in Three Parts, Z790-801

Purcell published his collection of a dozen trio sonatas in 1683, and in the preface remarked that he ‘faithfully endeavour’d...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2011

PIAZZOLLA Tangos and Dances

Ubiquitous as Piazzolla’s music may have become, its presentation constantly evolves, from his original or officially sanctioned instrumentations for bandoneón-led...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Song Without Words

Both of Mendelssohn’s splendidly assured cello sonatas and the Variations concertantes were composed for his brother Paul to play, and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011

HAYDN String Quartets

Big works, and written to be premiered in the Hanover Square Rooms during Haydn’s second London visit in 1794. Thus...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2011

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