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MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 17

The opening ‘Promenade’ sets the tone for the whole of Alice Sara Ott’s visit to Mussorgsky’s gallery. It sounds as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 10-12

Think for instance of Walter Gieseking, and his performances of K331 and K332 (EMI Icons) that combine precisely articulated playing,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2013

Around Britten

This disc is a distillation of the pieces Matthew Barley is taking on his 100-date tour this year to celebrate...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 2

The second volume of Jonathan Biss’s Beethoven cycle for Onyx begins with the Op 7 Sonata, where the first movement...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013

JS BACH Six Partitas BWV825-830

Vladimir Feltsman’s 1999 Bach Partitas first appeared around a decade ago on the Urtext label, coupled with the same composer’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013

Italian Journey

It is very appealing to be taken on a tour of Italy through Respighi, Puccini, Verdi and Boccherini by way...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013

English Violin Duos

The two-violin repertoire is a wide and varied one, and even though this new disc focuses on ‘English Violin Duos’,...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 04/2013

Music by Composers in Theresienstadt

Although all of these composers were active in Terezín (Theresienstadt), only the works by Klein and Ullmann were written there,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013

STRAVINSKY Octet. L'Histoire du Soldat

Particularly in the sparely scored works of his so-called neo-classical period, Stravinsky’s music requires very exact balance, something scrupulously caught...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2013

SCHUMANN Piano Trios

There’s something about Schumann’s piano trios. The music really gets under your skin, more so than many of his works:...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2013

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