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KATÈLBEY 'A Dream Picture' (Rosemary Tuck)

Before anyone gets too sniffy about Albert W Ketèlbey (1875-1959), it is worth bearing in mind that by the late...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW21

KAPUSTIN Piano Music (Yeol Eum Son)

Yeol Eum Son (b1986) is a South Korean pianist who first came to public attention when she won the Silver...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW21

IVES Piano Sonata No 1 GANDER Peter Parker (Joonas Ahonen)

Having made among the finest recent recordings of Ives’s Second (Concord) Sonata (BIS, 11/17), Joonas Ahonen now turns to its...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW21

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

I thought I was not going to enjoy this. Beethoven’s Eroica arranged for piano duet – one of the most...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW21

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Samuele Telari )

A considerable degree of patience is required to get through Samuele Telari’s rendition of the Goldbergs. In our October 2020...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW21

JS BACH English Suites Nos 1-3 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)

Although Vladimir Ashkenazy gave up public piano performances in 2007 due to arthrosis, he still could achieve memorable, world-class results...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW21

AHO 'Solo'

Various composers have attempted writing series of works for solo instruments, most famously, perhaps, Berio in his 14 Sequenzas (1958-2002)....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW21

Elena Urioste, Tom Poster: The Jukebox Album

When the first lockdown hit, husband-and-wife team Elena Urioste and Tom Poster started broadcasting daily from a borrowed home in...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW21

Janine Jansen: 12 Stradivari

While it’s true that not every great violin is a Stradivarius, and not every Stradivarius is truly great, it is...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW21

VILLA-LOBOS Complete Violin Sonatas (Emmanuele Baldini)

Although they have tended to be overshadowed in the context of his large and diverse output, the violin sonatas by...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW21

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