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BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1 SARASATE Concert Fantasy on Carmen, Op 25

In the last decade of his life Bloch concentrated to great effect on solo and chamber music for strings. The...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

That touch of sighing desolation in the introductory Adagio of No 4 eludes Joshua Bell, ensemble too loud for pianissimo,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2013

BAX Phantasy VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Suite for Viola

Can it really be nearly a quarter of a century since Rivka Golani’s world premiere recording of Bax’s delectable Phantasy...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2013

JS BACH; TELEMANN Concertos for Viola & Bassoon

Why would a viola player or a bassoonist not want to play Bach? And who with a heart would want...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2013

Satie and Friends

This musical jardin à la française is dedicated to the memory of Brigitte Engerer, whose death in June last year...

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Ingolf Wunder: 300

Is it just a coincidence that this semi-pops recital from Ingolf Wunder features many works both closely associated with and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013

TARTINI Sonatas for Solo Violin

After recording little-known early-19th-century violin music by Alard and Mercadante, Luigi De Filippi – a busy soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013

SCHUMANN Carnaval, Op 9; Faschingsschwank aus Wien

As Maurizio Baglini launches into Carnaval, the first impression is of a muddy acoustic, in which the textures lose definition...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013

RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes

The last time Rachmaninov’s complete Preludes came my way was Steven Osborne’s widely praised account (Hyperion, 6/09), a set which...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas

Here are two Prokofiev recitals by two Russian pianists of different generations (Koroliov is now 64, Kozhukhin 27), the first...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2013

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