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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

WHALLEY A Very Serious Game. Tachophobia. Intoxicating Orchids

Manchester-based Richard Whalley has built up a notable catalogue over two decades, with the calibre of performers on this first...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue:

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Quartet, Op 41. Piano Quintet, Op 14. Barcarolle, Op 108

The tightly worked counterpoint in the second movement of the B flat Piano Quartet exposes Saint-Saëns’s learned side but he...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013

PROKOFIEV Complete Works for Violin & Piano

These musicians of rare versatility perform regularly as a duo. Bringing this successful partnership so tangibly into the listening room...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

MESSIAEN Préludes SAARIAHO Je sens un deuxième cœur

A mixed programme of Messiaen and Saariaho piano and chamber music may present something of a shelving quandary. But the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2013

PENDERECKI String Quartets Nos 1-3 LUTOSŁAWSKI String Quartet

After their impressive traversal of the Górecki quartets (6/11), the Royal Quartet return with two further seminal Polish figures. Penderecki’s...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013

HOLMBOE Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar

Holmboe came late to the guitar but, as was the case with the accordion and recorder, once one piece was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2013

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