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Amiable Coversation

This is a thoroughly imaginative pairing of John Cage and Henry Cowell, especially coming after Cowell’s impressive showing as Composer...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 21 & 29

Korean-born Sunwook Kim came to prominence in 2006 at the age of 18, when he won the Leeds International Competition....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016

The Soul of Lady Harmsworth

What a good title for this selection of famous 19th-century encores. The ‘Lady Harmsworth’ in question is a 1703 masterpiece...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016

My Armenia

As far as Armenians are concerned, music is inextricably bound up with loss. Every year, they gather to pay respects...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016

Danish Piano Trios

Two discs from two Danish ensembles coincide to chart the history of the piano trio in the country from its...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016

ŽEBELJAN Chamber Music

Isidora Žebeljan (b1967) grew up in a rural part of Serbia near the Carpathian mountains, where folk music criss-crossed between...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016

TELEMANN Recorder Sonatas and Fantasias

Pamela Thorby’s new two-disc set looks at first glance pretty hardcore: one disc of sonatas with continuo and a second...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016

SESSIONS Music for Violin and Piano

He was unfashionable before anyone knew who he was. As Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen were advancing their arguments about...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016

SCHUMANN Violin Sonatas

Whether one can hear shades of Schumann’s nervous collapse within his D minor Violin Sonata is very much up for...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016

SCHUBERT Piano à quatre mains

Debate often rages here at Gramophone Towers: do piano duets get reviewed in the Instrumental or Chamber sections of the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2016

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