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FUCHS Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

‘What a delightful man,’ quotes the booklet-note of this CPO disc of symphonies by Robert Fuchs. And yes, he does...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016

L’arpa Barberini. Li Due Orfei

Here are two dulcet albums by voice-harp duos exploring music from early-17th-century Italy. Marc and Angélique Mauillon focus on the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016

New Generations: The Etudes of Philip Glass

Paul Barnes’s interest in Philip Glass dates back to the mid-1990s, when he started performing, recording and arranging the composer’s...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2016

SWEELINCK Works for Keyboard Vol 3

Robert Woolley’s slow-burn Sweelinck series reaches Vol 3, following the releases of Vol 1 (devoted to organ music – 10/03)...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016

SMETANA Czech Dances

Just when you think that Garrick Ohlsson finally has all bases covered – from such staples as a complete Chopin...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016

SAINT-SAËNS Solo Piano Works Vol 4

Vol 4 of Geoffrey Burleson’s Saint-Saëns complete piano works leads us dutifully through the dances and Souvenirs. And if the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2016

MOMPOU Piano Works vol 2

Any piano maven who doesn’t fall in love with Mompou at first hearing is either a liar or a curmudgeon....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2016

IVES Piano Sonata No 2

The American pianist Tzimon Barto arrives at this new disc of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata via recordings of Schubert’s D894,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Nos 31, 33, 47 & 59

Barcelona-born Enrique Bagaría has chosen four of Haydn’s most striking keyboard sonatas and talks in an engaging booklet essay about...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016

ELLINGTON Piano Works

Luigi Palombi’s disc of Duke Ellington sets up a discussion of those ever-problematic issues raised whenever classical pianists co opt...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

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