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CHOPIN Piano Works

For the second volume of his Chopin cycle, Louis Lortie prefaces major pieces such as the Four Ballades with Nocturnes,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 1

When it comes to Beethoven’s complete survey of piano sonatas on disc, EMI appears to take risks. After all, they...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2012

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012

As with the Solo Sonatas and Partitas for violin, people tend to ally themselves to one particular recording of the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2012

BACH Cello Suites Nos 1-6, BWV1007-1012

This recording is very much aimed at the French market. The viola player Gérard Caussé and the late actor Laurent...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2012

BACH Partitas Nos 1 & 2 SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus

Central to Simone Dinnerstein’s recording ambitions is a kind of reflective Bach-playing which, with or without Larkin’s line ‘Something almost...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2012

BRITTEN; BACH; LIGETI Works for Cello

In what feels a bit like a ‘taster’ disc (which doesn’t do justice to music performed with this much authority)...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2012

JS BACH Organ Works Vol VII

For their latest foray into the multifaceted world of Bach’s organ music, Margaret Phillips and her engineer and producer Gary...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012

THORESEN Yr

Ragnhild Hemsing stands out even in the crowded market of young (she is just 23), attractive and photogenic female violinists....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2012

A Tribute to Ralph Holmes

The violinist Ralph Holmes had a unique position among virtuosos of his generation but his early death in 1984 at...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2012

SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas

Only a matter of months after the appearance of his fine recording of Schumann’s Violin Concerto (2/12), Ulf Wallin now...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012

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