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WAGNER Overtures and Preludes

A few words of clarification before tackling the performances, as most of the booklet is taken up with an imaginary...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

VIERNE Sympnies Nos 2 & 3

The sound is magnificent. The Gloucester Cathedral organ displays its Gallic credentials as Ashley Grote goads it to enunciate French...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013

SCHUMANN Symphonische Etuden. Arabesque. Waldszenen

Martin Helmchen’s programme explores the extremes of Schumann as a piano composer, at both his most inward and his most...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2013

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 1 - 5

Peter Donohoe and Prokofiev go back more than 30 years on disc. He first recorded the Seventh Sonata in 1982...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013

MAHNKOPF Piano Works

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, born in 1962 in Mannheim, chucks notes around like confetti. In his ensemble and instrumental works, the space...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

LISZT Piano Works

Here is a recital with a difference – the choice of repertoire sufficiently wide-ranging to give an optimum view of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2013

IRELAND Piano Music

I do feel that Ireland is one of those composers whose music does not benefit from intégrale recording projects. Individually,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

GRIFFES Piano Music

Charles Tomlinson Griffes died in 1920 at the age of 35. He’d spent four years studying in Germany and came...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 06/2013

JS BACH Organ Masterworks Vol 3

This is an enjoyable Bach recital, cleanly played and nicely recorded on one of the great organs of our time....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5 (arranged for viola)

Whereas it could be argued that Antoine Tamestit’s recording of Bach’s violin music (Ambroisie, 8/07) became a little too throaty...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013

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