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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vols 7-9 (Boris Giltburg)

To mark Beethoven’s 2020 anniversary year, Boris Giltburg set himself the task of filming all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021

JS BACH Six Partitas (Mahan Esfahani)

For his recording of Bach’s Partitas, Mahan Esfahani uses a harpsichord built by the workshop of Jukka Ollikka in Prague,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021

Randall Goosby: Roots

Revisiting my notes on this first recording by the American violinist Randall Goosby, I find that the word I’ve scribbled...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2021

Simon Höfele: New Standards

Despite a bewilderingly facile interview between the trumpeter and pianist which is, in effect, the complete booklet (one page is...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2021

Tine Thing Helseth: Magical Memories For Trumpet and Organ

There are some artists who have the unteachable gift of turning the simplest, most ordinary and even third-rate music into...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021

Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain

The year 2021 is a fine one for British musical centenarians, whether the composers Robert Simpson and Malcolm Arnold or...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2021

Toby Hughes: Elegy

Despite its title, Toby Hughes’s debut album is not so much a disc of elegies as an examination of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2021

WOLF-FERRARI Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 (Emmanuele Baldini)

Although hardly remembered for chamber music, Wolf-Ferrari essayed more than a dozen works in the genre at either end of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021

STANFORD Piano Quintet

It is good to see that Stanford’s Piano Quintet, a work that stands up more than respectably against other Romantic...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2021

R PANUFNIK Heartfelt & other works

This album featuring Roxanna Panufnik’s chamber works will come as a surprise to listeners more familiar with the theme of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021

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