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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 31

‘Never sing louder than lovely’ was Dame Isobel Baillie’s advice to singers. Someone must have said much the same thing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2013

RAFF Piano Works Vol 3

Joachim Raff’s journey from humble beginnings to a sky-high reputation was followed by decline and fall. Today, most of his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013

MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 1

Vol 1 of Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music (the first of a six-CD series) is launched with all of Howard...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013

BRAHMS Works for Solo Piano Vol 2

Barry Douglas’s second volume of his projected complete Brahms cycle benefits, like the first (6/12), from an engaging programme. Instead...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2013

Alessio Bax plays Brahms

Alessio Bax is living and urgently needed proof that competition triumphs are still meaningful; something to associate with playing of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14 and 23

Pianist Yundi has made recordings over the past dozen years ranging from exciting and incisive (the Chopin Scherzos and the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Works

In 2000 BBC Legends released Sviatoslav Richter’s all-Beethoven recital of June 11, 1975, from the Aldeburgh Festival featuring three Bagatelles...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2013

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Violin, BWV 1001, 1003, 1005

When Gunar Letzbor plays the opening chord of the First Sonata, he stretches it out so far that you could...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2013

JS BACH Partitas Nos 1-6, BWV825-830

This recording of Bach’s first published keyboard collection was decades in the making, delayed by harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman’s...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2013

Tine

Tine Thing Helseth’s playing is stylish in every way and there is ready virtuosity when required. She immediately finds character...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2013

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