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BARBER Cello Concerto & Sonata

There are three hits here on one CD. The Cello Sonata dates from 1932, when Barber was a student at...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2013

The English Cathedral Series: St Edmundsbury Cathedral

David Humphreys, formerly assistant organist at St Edmundsbury and now moved up the road (as it were) to Peterborough, concentrates...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013

Bach and Beyond, Part 1

The backbone of this programme is the combination of the two most musically demanding of Bach’s Partitas – the second...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013

Alexis Weissenberg plays Ravel, Schumann & Mussorgsky

Here, on a two-CD recital taken live from the Salzburg Festival, is Alexis Weissenberg in all his alternating brilliance and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns

Yevgeny Sudbin’s ultra-demanding recital is lovingly chosen to suggest a wealth of subtle inter-relationships. And, in an age of much...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

RAVEL Érard versus Steinway, ‘Compared’ Vol 1

Paolo Giacometti asks ‘authentic or modern?’ in his introductory notes. The pianist has made a career of playing the same...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

MOZART; CLEMENTI Piano works

Aldo Ciccolini, now an elder statesman of the piano, has for long been associated with the music of his adopted...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

LISZT Années de Pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie S161 (excs)

Those familiar with the lively acoustic of the (audibly empty) Wyastone Concert Hall will know what kind of piano sound...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

LISZT Piano Recital

A lyrical, rubato-laden and slightly shapeless Valse impromptu opens Vanessa Benelli Mosell’s Liszt recital. The pianism is impressively refined and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013

DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 2

The opening pages of Dohnányi’s Op 2 might well have been penned by Brahms in one of his jollier moods....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013

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