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EL-KHOURY Piano Sonatas Nos 1-4 (Giacomo Scinardo)

Born in Beirut and based in Paris for more than four decades, Bechara El Khoury is in his early sixties...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019

Alexander Ffinch: Transformations

Alexander Ffinch has chosen to show off the newly restored organ of Cheltenham College Chapel with three heavyweight works, each...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2019

COUPERIN Suites (Rinaldo Alessandrini)

It takes a special kind of pedantry to put square brackets round a single-word title on the cover artwork of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2019

CHOPIN Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas (Pavel Kolesnikov)

At last, here we have 18 pieces of Chopin by a pianist whose name is rapidly becoming synonymous with searching...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW2019

JS BACH Complete Cello Suites (Emmanuele Bertrand)

Most recordings of Bach’s Cello Suites find the soloist summoning their instrument in pursuit of a musical vision. With Emmanuelle...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2019

Voyage Central Park

Piazzolla originally composed his Histoire du tango for flute and guitar but it’s just as frequently taken up by violinists...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2019

Haydn and the Harp

Haydn wrote little, if anything, for the harp, but naturally that didn’t stop other musicians arranging his music for the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2019

Born in Dirt An Din (Mr McFall's Chamber)

Jazz has long been associated with dirt and din, its angst-ridden scores providing appropriate atmospheric backdrops to innumerable city noir...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete String Quartets; String Sextet

It seems incredible to think that Tchaikovsky’s string quartets were once viewed as insufficiently Russian; but according to Cobbett, when...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019

SMALLEY Piano, Vocal and Chamber Music

This is a very welcome release indeed. Roger Smalley (1943-2015) is one of those British composers who have slipped beneath...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2019

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