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Cançons i danses catalanes

The Spanish nationalism that saw composers as diverse as Albéniz, Falla and Rodrigo look to traditional and archaic musics for...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2016

LISZT Paganini Studies

Paganini was already 46 when he first left his native Italy for a series of concerts throughout Europe. The effect...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016

Yulianna Avdeeva plays Chopin, LIszt and Mozart

Yulianna Avdeeva’s first prize in the 2010 Chopin Competition was not without controversy. Hearing her play Shostakovich last year in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 16-18, 24-27

Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven cycle gets better with each new instalment and nearly everything here is a keeper. He obviously adores...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 5

As in Jonathan Biss’s first four Beethoven discs, Vol 5 offers a mix of works from various periods. It adds...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

No one could accuse Christophe Rousset of rushing to record The Well-Tempered Clavier; Book 1 arrives a year after Book...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2016

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

Alarm bells always start to ring when the cover of a performance of solo Bach gives the disc a moniker...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2016

Leonidas Kavakos: Virtuoso

It’s not just the enticing morceaux on offer and the undiluted pleasure of hearing a great violinist at the top...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016

Dan Laurin: Sonates et Suites

This is a delightful, well-paced recital of early- and mid-18th-century French music, if not always composed specifically for the recorder...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2016

A Moveable Feast

‘Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble’: what on earth were they thinking? Your first assumption is that it’s some sort of wordplay, but...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2016

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