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BEETHOVEN/LISZT Symphony No 9 Piano Transcription

With this release, Yury Martynov wraps up his traversal of Liszt’s transcriptions of all nine Beethoven symphonies, the first complete...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

BARTÓK Mikrokosmos Book 6. 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs

Alfred Brendel has written that, in contrast with a number of composers, Bartók’s scores are notated with the ‘utmost precision’....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016

JS BACH Cello Suites Nos 2, 5 & 6

Joachim Eijlander’s first volume of Bach’s Cello Suites (9/15) was a meticulous albeit slightly bland reading which bore all the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2016

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

To pin down the specific problems of this perplexing recording of JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin transcribed...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2016

Nelson Freire: Bach

This, Nelson Freire’s first disc devoted to Bach, is predictably personal. It speaks of long acquaintance with the works on...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016

SCHUBERT Octet CRUSELL Concert Trio

The spirit of the Schubertiade is easily felt in performances of his Octet: such a convivial, good-humoured work. It was...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2016

SCELSI Complete Flute Music

The Scelsi conundrum is fully on display in this brightly recorded compilation of compositions involving the flute. The good news...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2016

RABL Clarinet Quartet. Fantasiestücke, Violin Sonata

Walter Rabl is barely a footnote entry to late-Romantic music, largely because after a promising start as a composer –...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2016

MENDELSSOHN Pianos Trios Nos 1 & 2

Is it just me, or are piano trios getting younger? The Hamlet Trio, whose Mendelssohn I reviewed a few months...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2016

GRIEG; THOMMESSEN; SIBELIUS String Quartets

The quiet E minor chords that give Sibelius’s Voces intimae its nickname occur a minute and a half into the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016

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