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RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1, Op 28. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op 22

Rachmaninov’s First Sonata and Variations on a Theme of Chopin provide a welcome change from the more familiar Second Sonata...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013

MUSSORGSKY Pictures from an Exhibition PROKOFIEV Sarcasms. Visions Fugitives

After his disc of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes (6/09), Steven Osborne moves into rougher Russian waters with Mussorgsky and Prokofiev. And...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013

MOMPOU Piano Works Vol 1

Laments 1-4, triste, secreto are Mompou’s descriptions of several pieces from his Impresiones intimas (again, a resonant and revealing title),...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013

MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Brautigam is, if not the foremost, certainly the most prolific of today’s fortepiano specialists, with complete cycles of Mozart, Haydn...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013

MENDELSSOHN Piano Works

This is a most appealing programme, with disc 1 devoted to the four sonatas (five if you include the Sonate...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013

MEDTNER Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 1

The first of a projected four-disc set of Medtner’s piano sonatas performed by the Canadian pianist Paul Stewart launches a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013

Niu Niu - Liszt Transcriptions

More than four years ago, the EMI marketing people sent me a disc to be released in China of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013

BRITTEN Suites for Solo Cello

A particular coup of this disc is the booklet-note. That may be an odd place for a review to start...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2013

JS BACH Partitas No 2 & 6. Toccata BWV911

The virtues of David Fray’s 2007 D major Partita and D minor French Suite recording (7/07) are present in his...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2013

JS BACH The English Suites

After robust, earthy Purcell and delicately characterful Louis Couperin, Richard Egarr’s Bach English Suites are carefully controlled, polished, thoughtful and...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2013

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