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JS BACH Easter Oratorio

While the Easter Oratorio derives much of its material from cantatas, it is the only example where Bach employs free...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2012

Delius and his Circle

‘Paul Guinery?’ many UK readers will ask. ‘Where have I heard that name?’ Either Stone Records thinks it doesn’t matter...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2012

Transfigured Tchaikovsky

I much enjoyed Petronel Malan’s previous discs of ‘transfigured’ Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (4/09) featuring a wide range of transcriptions,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2012

SCARLATTI Harpsichord Sonatas

Monotony all too often sets in on discs devoted entirely to the harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Not because the...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2012

PROKOFIEV Works for Piano

Abdel Rahman El Bacha’s thoughtfully constructed programme explores Prokofiev’s solo piano works in the years leading up to his departure...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012

LISZT The Hungarian Rhapsodies

Adding the Rhapsodie roumaine (the 20th Rhapsody) and the late Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 16-19, Giovanni Bellucci is unusually comprehensive in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2012

The Complete Piano Music of Sir Arthur Bliss Volume 1

This first volume of Mark Bebbington’s planned recording of the complete piano music of Sir Arthur Bliss ranges wide over...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2012

BINGHAM The Everlasting Crown

Organists and their audiences are not generally used to musical structures which stretch much beyond the five- or 10-minute mark,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Solo Piano Volume 11

With the sonatas and bagatelles under his belt, Ronald Brautigam now turns to the variation sets for the 11th instalment...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012

BEETHOVEN Bagatelles

Nothing like a Beethovenian contradiction to get things going, is there? The marking Andante grazioso quasi allegretto in Op 33...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012

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