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JANÁCEK Piano Works (Jan Bartos)

Jan Bartoš follows up his first two Supraphon releases respectively devoted to Mozart concertos (10/17) and Beethoven sonatas (A/18) with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

HENRIQUES Works for Piano and Violin & Piano

The Danish composer Fini Henriques (born Valdemar Fini Henriques, 1867-1940) is not nearly as well known today as he deserves....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019

HAYDN Symphonies (Trans. for solo piano by C Stegmann)

Carl David Stegmann (1751-1826) was a composer, conductor and tenor based mainly in northern and eastern Germany. Alongside his own...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019

HAYDN Seven Last Words of Christ of the Cross (Stavy)

The fact that the keyboard version of The Seven Last Words has come down to us in an arrangement not...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019

FRANCK Organ Works (Patrick; Challenger)

Two Englishmen playing César Franck on two English cathedral organs. You would have thought they would have much in common,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2019

BUSONI Piano Music Vol 11 (Harden)

Busoni’s music can on occasion remind me of that quip by Eduard Hanslick when he encountered Brahms’s Fourth Symphony for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Keith Jarrett)

This previously unreleased live performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 took place in March 1987, just one month after...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH Toccatas (Esfahani)

The element most characteristic of the toccata – from the earliest lute and keyboard pieces in 16th-century Italy to more...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH Lute Suites (Franz Halász)

Franz Halász does something interesting here. Well, of course he does – you’ve heard his Henze, Berio and Takemitsu …...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2019

Vivi Vassileva: Singin' Rhythm

‘Singin’ Rhythm’ finds multi-percussionist Vivi Vassileva pursuing all directions at once, from marimba soloist to bandleader, in a cross-section of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

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