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BYRD Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

Pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar makes no effort to sharpen the sound of his instrument or play with greater incision when rendering...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2023

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32 (Anne Queffélec)

Anne Queffélec is an artist whom I’ve loved in Scarlatti, Bach and Ravel, but Beethoven? This is new territory, certainly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

Mozart’s Real Musical Father

On their childhood travels Wolfgang and sister Nannerl dazzled aristocratic audiences with their double acts on the harpsichord. In the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2023

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Andreas Staier)

The recorded repertory of the prolific German harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Staier spans the Baroque through Brahms. His Book 2...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2023

Daniel Pioro: Saint Boy

Daniel Pioro is currently Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, where last October I saw him give the coruscating...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2023

Inbal Segev: 20 for 2020

The past year has seen a fair number of projects that emerged as result of or were inspired by the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023

SHAW The Wheel

Several themes (musical and extramusical) interact and overlap on this fascinating album of solo and chamber compositions by Caroline Shaw,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2023

SCHUBERT Piano Trio No 1. Trout Quintet

Enthusiasm, affection and style were three of the attributes of the Busch Trio’s playing identified by Richard Bratby when he...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023

REED String Quartets Nos 4 & 5 (Cirrus Quartet)

This is not the first modern recording dedicated to ‘Elgar’s violinist’, WH (‘Billy’) Reed: Dutton issued a collection of violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2023

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios. Cello Sonata

This trio of Russian musicians certainly have this music flowing through their veins, but is that enough in a crowded...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023

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