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PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 1 - 5

Peter Donohoe and Prokofiev go back more than 30 years on disc. He first recorded the Seventh Sonata in 1982...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013

MAHNKOPF Piano Works

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, born in 1962 in Mannheim, chucks notes around like confetti. In his ensemble and instrumental works, the space...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

LISZT Piano Works

Here is a recital with a difference – the choice of repertoire sufficiently wide-ranging to give an optimum view of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2013

IRELAND Piano Music

I do feel that Ireland is one of those composers whose music does not benefit from intégrale recording projects. Individually,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

GRIFFES Piano Music

Charles Tomlinson Griffes died in 1920 at the age of 35. He’d spent four years studying in Germany and came...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 06/2013

JS BACH Organ Masterworks Vol 3

This is an enjoyable Bach recital, cleanly played and nicely recorded on one of the great organs of our time....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5 (arranged for viola)

Whereas it could be argued that Antoine Tamestit’s recording of Bach’s violin music (Ambroisie, 8/07) became a little too throaty...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013

JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006

This latest two-disc recording of the monumental Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas sets new standards. Performing on an 18th-century...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2013

WAGNER Arias

The ultimate curate’s egg. I have admired watching and hearing Vogt as Lohengrin and in Katharina Wagner’s important Meistersinger. Yet...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013

TELEMANN Cantatas & Arias

Anyone attracted to early-18th-century German Baroque music beyond Bach will admire Telemann’s fertile melodiousness and exquisite craftsmanship but Dorothee Mields’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013

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