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BLOW An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

This release joins a surprisingly small company entirely devoted to works by Purcell’s teacher and friend John Blow (excepting the opera...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2. Études-tableaux Op 33

Boris Giltburg certainly has something fresh to say in Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto, that well-worn, much-loved masterpiece, and in his new Naxos...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Gardiner)

The last instalment in John Eliot Gardiner’s bracing Mendelssohn cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra marks up a significant success....

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21

It has been a long, long time since Krystian Zimerman’s last solo recording. Think back to his Gramophone Award-winning Debussy...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017

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

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