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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

Soulmates: Music For Cello, Clarinet, and Piano

Beethoven and Brahms’s clarinet trios make a superb pair. They share the same instrumentation, of course, yet also serve as foils...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17

HAYDN; CPE BACH Cello Concertos (Isserlis)

It’s a comparatively rare event for an artist to be afforded the luxury of recording a major work for a second time....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW17

PICKARD Sixteen Sunrises. Symphony No 5

The chief work on BIS’s fourth CD devoted to the music of John Pickard (b1963) is his Fifth and most...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17

SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony STRAUSS Metamorphosen

Rarely have I been as moved by Strauss’s ‘Study for 23 solo strings’, his in memoriam to a severely bruised culture and to bombed...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17

Edinburgh 1742

The music of Francesco Barsanti (c1690-1775) normally only makes it on to a recording when it shows its Scottish accent....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW17

Nelson Freire: Brahms

Brahms’s Third Sonata has been a calling card for Nelson Freire since the earliest days – for his farewell recital in Rio de...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17

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