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RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH; DENISOV Cello Sonatas

Twentieth-century Russia left cellists spoilt for choice: a player who wants to record a sonata disc can choose from bona...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

PERLE Serenades

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project are quietly building a most impressive library of contemporary American composition. For their latest release,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

MARAIS Deuxième Livre de Pièces de Viole (1701)

Upon reviewing this release, I had every intention of listening to it every day until publication. Six hours of Marin...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020

CHOPIN Cello Sonata FRANCK Violin Sonata (Capuçon & Wang)

Whether or not Franck originally conceived his Violin Sonata for cello and piano, as now seems probable, the version played...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (ATOS Trio)

Coincidentally, just prior to hearing these two double-packs, I’d received a reissue from First Hand Records of the First and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete works for Piano & Cello (Ori & Omri Epstein)

Does any body of work by a great composer look more unassuming (superficially, at least) and yet yield more riches...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 6, 7 & 8

There’s a special fascination to Beethoven’s three violin sonatas Op 30 – music that he seems to have written, in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BACEWICZ Complete Violin Sonatas

The inside cover of this disc shows Grażyna Bacewicz holding a violin; and if you discovered this composer through the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BRAHMS The Final Piano Pieces (Stephen Hough)

Blend imaginative yet learned interpretation, profound sensitivity and poetry, and personal charisma, and you have here one of the finest...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2020

PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet (Stanislav Khristenko)

Since his 2013 victory in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Stanislav Khristenko has been amassing a strong online profile through...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020

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