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Baroque Conversations

Just as David Greilsammer’s ‘fantaisie_fantasme’ (Naïve, 12/07) alternated old and new music according to a mirror-like symmetrical game plan, ‘Baroque...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2012

YSAŸE 6 Sonatas for solo violin Op 27

Ysaÿe dedicated each of these sonatas to a different, then-famous, performer-friend, and each is wildly different in character as a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2012

MEDTNER Arabesques, Dithyrambs, Elegies

Here is a declaration of musical faith if ever there was one. No pianist has done more for Medtner’s reputation...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012

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

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