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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 13 & 21

Nine years have passed since Javier Perianes’s first disc of Schubert and here he programmes two utterly opposing sonatas, the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

RAVEL Miroirs SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 10

Andrew Tyson keeps his headstrong and occasionally restless interpretative temperament in focus throughout most of his second solo CD, in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2017

PAGANINI Bel canto

‘I rather assumed that the sound would be unique right from the start’, recalled Robert Schumann of Paganini’s playing. ‘Nothing...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2017

FRESCOBALDI Organ Works

It is heartening to know that Girolamo Frescobaldi’s legacy continues some 374 years after his death. Born in Ferrara in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2017

Angela Hewitt: Chopin

As the booklet-notes point out, the big news emerging from the 1980 Chopin Competition was the jury’s decision not to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017

CHOPIN Emmanuel Despax

Emmanuel Despax prefaces his recording of Chopin’s Preludes with a booklet-note that explains his concern for textual accuracy and avoidance...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 6

Jonathan Biss’s slowly evolving Beethoven sonata cycle has now reached Vol 6. And the main offering here is the greatest...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

WAGNER Lohengrin

Just as the drying-up of studio recordings (never plentiful) of Wagner’s ‘romantic opera’ seemed to threaten the work with ill-earned...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2017

VERDI Oberto

Verdi’s second opera has fared surprisingly well on record, especially if you include its appearances on DVD. In the audio-only...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017

RAVEL L'Enfant et les sortilèges DEBUSSY L'Enfant Prodigue

Not just one but two naughty boys here. Rather than pair Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with L’heure espagnole, Warner...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017

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