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BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24

For many pianists there is a long-standing ambition to record a particular composer. For Mitsuko Uchida it was the complete...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013

JS BACH Sonata for Solo Violin, BWV 1004. Fantasy BWV 562

Beecham’s adage that ‘a musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it’ needs to be revised,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2013

JS BACH Transcriptions for solo guitar

It was no surprise to learn that the young German guitarist Martin Hegel has attended masterclasses with David Russell and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2013

Jeux d’été

None of the pieces here bears the title ‘Jeux d’été’ but there is a summery warmth running through the programme....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue:

Concert at the Hapsburg Court

Another bright new Baroque group takes the stage, this time from France and offering a programme of five violin sonatas...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013

British Works for Cello and Piano, Vol 1

It is particularly gratifying to see that the rich repertoire of 19th- and early-20th-century British cello music, like its considerable...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2013

ZAREBSKI Piano Quintet

Poland’s hopes of widening international awareness of its country’s 19th-century music have long been high on the agenda but, with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Trios Nos 1 Op 8 & 2 Op 67 VASKS Canto Perpetuo

Peteris Vasks’s 30-minute Episodi e canto perpetuo is subtitled Hommage à O Messiaen. That’s all well and good. In fact...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013

SCHUMANN Complete Works for Cello & Piano

The seemingly strange juxtaposition of Yun and Schumann must make a lot of sense to Isang Enders, with his mixed...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 02/2013

RIHM Complete Works for Violin and Piano

One of the disconcerting things about listening to Wolfgang Rihm’s music is the impression of a composer thinking aloud, but...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013

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