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BERKELEY Chamber Works for Wind, Strings & Piano
Two world-premiere recordings top and tail this useful programme of chamber works by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-89). The Trio for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2012
BENDA Violin Sonatas
The Bohemian composer Franz Benda (1709-86) started his musical career as a boy soprano in the Benedictine church of St...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 7
As Beethoven did in the Fourth Piano Concerto four years earlier, so he does in Op 97; the pianist sets...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012
JS BACH Guitar Concertos
Xuefei Yang becomes the latest guitarist to adapt the music of Bach for her instrument. The composer’s own lute transcriptions...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue:
JC BACH A Music Party
These unfailingly excellent performances of attractive chamber works provide plenty of evidence to explain why the youngest child of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2012
ACHRON Complete Suites for Violin & Piano
Shaham and Erez recorded most of the short pieces in this programme in 1996; they were then issued on a...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2012
Renée Fleming: Poèmes
The outstanding item in this French collection is the first recording of Dutilleux’s Le temps l’horloge. The short cycle of...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
Une fête Baroque
Emmanuelle Haïm, the director of Le Concert d’Astrée, has planned this anthology to celebrate the group’s 10th anninversary, recorded at...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2012
The Earth Resounds
The strongest features of this latest recording from The Sixteen are its conception and the performances of Lassus’s music, the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2012
THORESEN Himmelkvad
Hard on the heels of Simax’s issue of his solo violin piece Yr (5/12) comes a whole disc devoted to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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