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JS BACH Mass in B minor (Blomstedt)

Some B minor Mass recordings serve as a useful reminder of the prodigious demands made upon performers by Bach’s opus...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2018

HANDEL Dixit Dominus JS BACH Magnificat

Despite Peter Wollny’s concise essay promoting the pan-European context of two supposedly polar contemporaries of similar geographical background – Handel...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2018

JS BACH; JC BACH; CPE BACH Magnificats

Three Magnificats, by the three most famous members of the Bach family, make for a delectable triptych from a 40-year...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2018

Eileen Joyce: The Complete Studio Recordings

Pianophiles will be slavering at the prospect of having access to all this great artist’s recordings. Some might not slaver...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

Julian Jacobson & Mariko Brown Piano Duo

If this disc’s contents appear slightly incongruous, try to imagine them in the context of a two-part concert with the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018

SCHUBERT; SZYMANOWSKI Piano Sonatas

The swirl of publicity that surrounded Lucas Debargue as the fourth-place winner of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition brought tremendous pressure...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018

PAGANINI 24 Caprices (Hadelich)

It’s fascinating to compare Augustin Hadelich’s account of the 24 Caprices with the version by Sueye Park that I reviewed...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2018

HARRISON Return of the Nightingales

The piano music on this disc all comes from the past five years, following on a comparable period when Sadie...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018

GRANADOS Piano Works

After her quite exceptional accounts of both Rachmaninov sonatas (8/14), Xiayin Wang turns her attention to the rather different but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

GLASS Complete Piano Etudes

The Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen rarely does things by half measures. His nine-disc ‘Minimal Collection’ (Brilliant Classics, 2009) remains...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2018

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