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Anna Fedorova: Shaping Chopin

Chopin indicates his Op 18 as a Grande valse brillante, yet Anna Fedorova’s fussy detailing and unsettled basic pulse make...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

BOLCOM; CHOPIN 'Vers Le Silence' (Ran Dank)

A long list of international competition victories and performances grace the 39-year-old Israeli-born, American-based pianist Ran Dank’s résumé, not to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH Complete English Suites (Sophie Yates)

Sophie Yates is an artist who wears her immense erudition lightly. Listening to her, one encounters the composer’s voice, clothed...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

Jennifer Pike: The Polish Violin

Richard Bratby was little short of bowled over by Jennifer Pike and Petr Limonov’s first volume of music by Polish...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021

STRAVINSKY The Soldier's Tale (English Version)

Notions of authenticity don’t obviously map themselves on to a piece so inherently adaptable to circumstances, and designed that way...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021

SCHUBERT Piano Trios, Vol 1 (Gould Piano Trio)

Having issued, among much other repertoire, a well-received complete set of Beethoven’s ouput for piano trio, the Gould Trio now...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021

PADEREWSKI; STOJOWSKI Violin Sonatas (Piotr Plawner)

This appealing trans-centennial musical diversion offers a good excuse to showcase three quality Polish sonatas that fall beyond the familiar...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

PIAZZOLLA 'Cien Anõs'

This programme may have been designed as a centenary tribute to Astor Piazzolla but it’s Juanjo Mosalini who steals the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021

MENDELSSOHN; FANNY MENDELSSOHN String Quartets (Takács Quartet)

Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021

KLEBANOV Chamber Works

The Toronto-based ARC Ensemble continue their rehabilitation of 20th-century Jewish composers from across the ideological divide with three chamber works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021

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