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BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 6 & 9

This is James Ehnes’s first disc of Beethoven sonatas and I very much hope it will herald a complete survey....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

ELGAR Cello Concerto; Sea Pictures

Though both Jacqueline du Pré and Janet Baker were already well established and widely appreciated in 1965, this disc marked...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Anett Fritsch: Mozart Arias

Anett Fritsch’s Mozart is a sheer delight. This is no bland essay of the usual suspects painted in anonymous colours...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017

GLASS Études – selection. Glassworks – Opening

In 2015, when Glass’s complete set of 20 Études for solo piano were presented – tag-team-style – by five different...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017

BRAHMS Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 4

As we reach Volume 4 of this complete solo Brahms traversal, there’s no doubt that Jonathan Plowright and old Johannes...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

Beatrice Rana has been making waves since her teens, notably at the 2013 Van Cliburn competition, where she won Silver...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

MOZART Violin Sonatas Vol 3

If you are going to play Mozart’s fragile childhood sonatas ‘for keyboard with violin accompaniment’ on modern instruments – always...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

D MATTHEWS Complete Piano Trios

Is it a British thing? Confronted with composers who write fresh, communicative music, rooted but not trapped in tradition, we…well,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica, Metamorphosen

François-Xavier Roth’s Strauss series with his SWR orchestra has been garnering glowing reviews in these pages. This new instalment emphatically...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017

JS BACH Orchestral Suites Nos 1, 3 & 4

Scholars speculate that some or all of Bach’s extant orchestral suites originated many years before their earliest surviving Leipzig sources....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017

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