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FRANCK Preludes, Fugues and Chorales (Nikolai Lugansky)

Usually a disc of César Franck’s piano music – especially one that includes the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – would...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2020

Jan Michiels: Bach-Busoni

Jan Michiels previously recorded four of Busoni’s Bach chorale prelude transcriptions and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica for a 2010 release on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020

JS BACH Toccatas (Masaaki Suzuki)

Bach’s Toccatas seem to present their interpreters thorny issues. With no surviving manuscripts from Bach himself, and with the number...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020

JS BACH Pour La Luth Ò Cembal (Sean Shibe)

Can you ever speak in elevated, grandiose terms about a classical guitarist? You want to avoid weight, to find instead...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2020

British Violin Sonatas (Little; Howick)

The rich repertoire of the British 20th-century violin sonata, surely one of the richest national repertoires of its era, bears...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2020

Treasures from the New World

‘Treasures from the United States and Brazil’ in truth for this warmly recorded and passionately played new disc. This is...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020

TELEMANN La Querelleuse

This debut disc is, hands down, some of the best recorded Telemann out there, and I am ready to go...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2020

RAVEL; STRAVINSKY Works for violin and piano (Kiffer & Moutouzkine)

To follow up his Steinway & Sons label debut devoted to Cuban piano music, the Russian/American pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine charts...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020

MOZART Piano Quartets (Collins, Philippens, Várdai, Szücs)

A Dutch violinist and Hungarian viola player and cellist coalesce around the Irish pianist Finghin Collins in Mozart’s two piano...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2020

F MENDELSSOHN; C SCHUMANN Piano Trios. String Quartet

Extraordinary as it sounds, I think this may be the first time that the string-ensemble chamber music of Clara Schumann...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2020

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