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BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas (excl Nos 19 & 20)

No sooner has the first double-disc release in HJ Lim’s Beethoven sonata survey (5/12) appeared than EMI releases the entire...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2012

CPE BACH Solo Keyboard Music Vol.24

There’s no sense of a flagging of energy or commitment as Miklós Spányi reaches the 23rd and 24th volumes of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2012

Saltarello

‘Saltarello’ is every bit as inventive and beautiful as its predecessor, ‘D’amore’ (9/08), rendering time and geographical space irrelevant in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2012

Awakening Princesses

If the recorder is the favourite instrument of few, then few instruments can convey perky and melancholy quite as vividly....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2012

WATKINS In My Craft or Sullen Art

Many unfamiliar with Huw Watkins (36 this year) as composer are likely to have encountered him as pianist, in which...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 09/2012

VIVALDI Trio Sonatas (12) for Two Violins & Continuo, Op 1

The 12 trio sonatas that make up Vivaldi’s Op 1 are his earliest known compositions. By the time that they...

Reviewed in issue 09/2012

SCHUMANN Chamber Music

Schumann’s works for solo instrument(s) with piano are often subsumed within multi-composer recitals so it’s more than worthwhile to have...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012

SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 13-15

Go straight to D810, Death and the Maiden. The two opening fortissimo motifs are like clarion calls. The Artemis Quartet...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012

LAWES The Royall Consorts

William Lawes was the leading composer at the court of Charles I for most of the Civil War, before he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2012

HANDEL Violin Sonatas

The distinguished discography of Handel’s violin sonatas includes fine versions by John Holloway (CRD, 10/92), Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi, 11/01),...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012

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