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RACHMANINOV Preludes (Moura Lympany)

Here is the first recording ever made of all Rachmaninov’s Preludes. Recorded for Decca between May 1941 and August 1942,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017

DEBUSSY Piano Music - Steven Osborne

French music is indispensable to any pianist’s training. Nearly all professionals maintain, at the very least, a few ‘speciality’ pieces in...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

CPE BACH Tangere

Think for a moment of a pianist equally at home with the French clavecinistes, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Scriabin,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

Cloud River Mountain

Quick question: how many composers does it take to create a song-cycle? In the case of ‘Cloud River Mountain’, the answer is...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW17

Boyd Meets Girl

Boyd Meets Girl comprises the Australian guitarist Rupert Boyd and the American cellist Laura Metcalf. A self-labelled ‘happily married couple’,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17

Crista Miller: Bonjour and Willkommen

The 19th pipe organ built by Martin Paso and Associates and housed in Houston’s relatively new Co‑Cathedral of the Sacred...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17

PERSICHETTI Keyboard Sonatas

Vincent Persichetti (1915‑87) composed 10 sonatas in all for the harpsichord, nine in the final six years of his life. The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17

Duo Virtuoso II: Works for Violin & Cello

Aside from Kodaly’s Duo for violin and cello, Mozart’s two duos for violin and viola and the ubiquitous Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW17

DOUSA A Musical Portrait of the American Southwest

The American composer Dominic Dousa shares something with another countryman, Ferde Grofé: both are/were smitten with the great expanses and...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW17

American Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Virgil Thomson said it best: ‘The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW17

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