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BEETHOVEN Bagatelles (Paul Lewis)

What exactly constitutes a Beethoven bagatelle is a moot point, as witness the varied add-ons to the standard published sets...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2020

BARJANSKY Complete Piano Works, Vol 1 (Julia Severus)

This, I can confidently state, is the first appearance in these pages of Adolf Barjansky (or Barzhansky). Born in 1850...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2020

JS BACH Cello Suites 1-3 (arr guitar. Jeffrey McFadden)

For classical guitarists, Bach’s Cello Suites, like his Lute Suites and Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas, are a gift that...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2020

Vienne 1900

I may be suffering withdrawal symptoms from lack of concert-going, but this enterprising programme would feel right at home in...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

Not Our First Goat Rodeo

I honestly didn’t expect to like the same team’s 2011 ‘Goat Rodeo Sessions’ (a modern bluegrass album blended with elements...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020

History of the Salon - Morceaux Caractristiques, 1823 - 1913

The composers represented here in this imaginative and varied programme are some of the 19th century’s finest practitioners of salon...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2020

PICKARD The Gardener of Aleppo (Nash Ensemble)

The seven works on this terrifically played, imaginatively programmed disc cover over 30 years of John Pickard’s career. They are...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020

ELGAR; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonatas (Jennifer Pike)

Reviewing some 30 recordings of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor for a Gramophone Collection in January 2016, it was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2020

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (François Salque, Eric Le Sage)

It’s one thing for a group of musicians to produce a complete chamber works cycle whose separate multifarious-force constituents are...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio Op 70 No 2. Symphony No 2 (Beethoven Trio Bonn)

The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020

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