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IVES Sonata No 2 'Concord Mass' (Rangell; Brylewski)

In the 80 years since John Kirkpatrick gave Ives’s Concord Sonata its first complete performance, the music has evolved from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

CHOPIN Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (version for one piano) (Dina Yoffe)

For anyone who may have missed it, Poland is assuming a leadership position in the use of historical instruments by...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2018

CHOPIN Complete Nocturnes (Fliter)

Pianists who record Chopin’s Nocturnes usually sequence the works by opus number. Ingrid Fliter differs from most by devising a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 109-111 (Alexandre Tharaud)

Alexandre Tharaud is a musician of wide interests, as compelling in the Baroque as he is delightful in a favourite...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

Dénes Várjon: De la nuit

No doubts about the qualifications of Ravel’s Gaspard for a disc entitled ‘Of the Night’. But only three of Schumann’s...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier (Papastefanou)

Alexandra Papastefanou first came to my attention via a mesmerising performance of Dimitri Mitropoulos’s rarely heard Piano Sonata but her...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH 6 Suites for Solo Viola (Kim Kashkashian)

Performing Bach’s Cello Suites in a transcription for viola is nothing new. Among other viola versions that I have to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH The Complete Organ Works, Vols 8 & 9

Having safely passed the halfway point of his 15-disc traversal of the complete Bach organ works for Signum Classics, David...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Rübsam)

There is already a rich catalogue...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2018

Birgit Nilsson: The Great Live Recordings

Collectors certainly wanted more than Decca could provide of this year’s centenarian Birgit Nilsson, an undoubted recording star of the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2018

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