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Polina Osetinskaya: Bach; Scarlatti

Polina Osetinskaya imbues each of this disc’s Bach and Scarlatti selections with a full-bodied sonority built from the bottom up,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (Thomas Zehetmair)

Two fine instruments were used for these recordings, a c1685 violin by a South Tyrolean master for the Partitas, and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020

ALWYN; CARWITHEN Piano Works (Daniel Grimwood)

This is not the first time that the works of both husband and wife have appeared together on the same...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020

The Russian Album: Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Shchedrin

It’s not just Yuja Wang whose encores threaten to steal the show. Christoph Croisé and Alexander Panfilov’s ‘Russian Album’ is...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020

The Lyrical Clarinet Vol 3 (Michael Collins)

A new CD from Michael Collins is like walking into a three-star Michelin restaurant: you don’t know exactly what’s on...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

TELEMANN Frankfurt Violin Sonatas

When Bruce Haynes proclaimed ‘the end of early music’ in the title of his book from 2007, he did not...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020

RADULESCU Complete Cello Works

Having released editions of Cage and Feldman, Mode is now releasing the complete works of the Romanian spectralist Horațiu Rădulescu...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 02/2020

QUANTZ Flute Concertos (Greg Dikmans)

Johann Joachim Quantz cuts an intriguing figure on the contemporary visibility front. On the one hand, he was renowned in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020

GAL Viola Music, Vol 1 (Hanna Pakkala)

‘This sweeping lyricism … fundamental to Gál’s style’ is annotator Richard Marcus’s description of the opening melody of the Suite...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020

COKE Cello Sonatas

All three sonatas on this typically enterprising Lyrita anthology date from the years 1936 to 1941 – an especially fecund...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2020

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