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ZIMMERMANN Voces Abandonadas

A rare beast inside the world of German modern composition – a composer whose aesthetic spills out of John Cage...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2017

WEITZ; JONGEN Organ Works

A quarter of a century has passed since Paul Derrett’s pioneering survey of Guy Weitz’s organ music, recorded in Hereford...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos

Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Introduction and Fugue for 2 Pianos

Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017

SCRIABIN 10 Piano Sonatas. Fantasy

Much of Garrick Ohlsson’s Scriabin sonata cycle is remarkably literal, maybe shockingly so. It’s as if the pianist were determined...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017

SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus Op 90. Piano Sonata D959

After launching his Schubert cycle in bold fashion with the final sonata, D960, Barry Douglas continues with two other works...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017

REGER Complete Organ Works

The statistics are impressive. Seventeen CDs (one of which is given over to a conversation – entirely in German –...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017

MENDELSSOHN Organ Sonatas

Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonatas, Op 65, date from the last part of his truncated career (1844) and were commissioned by the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017

LISZT Transcriptions of Vocal Works

Even today Liszt remains seriously underestimated as a song composer. Like his adored Schubert, simple lyrics of scant significance could...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017

David Fray plays Chopin

Remarkably, David Fray had kept Chopin out of his active repertoire for 15 years before recording this disc. It’s perhaps...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017

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