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JANÁČEK Říkadla

Much of Janáček’s music suggests quick reflexes prodded into spontaneous activity, as in such a work as The Wolf’s Tale...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

Journey: Two Hundred Years of Harpsichord Music

‘Journey’ may not be the most imaginative of possible titles, but it will do well enough for a recital in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016

RAVEL Complete Works for Solo Piano

Bertrand Chamayou from Toulouse has been called a prince of pianists, a hyperbolic claim, some might argue, for a musician...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at and Exhibition

The common denominator with these two discs is Mussorgsky’s Pictures. Antonii Baryshevskyi then moves on to a sequence of Scriabin....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2016

MENDELSSOHN Complete Works for Piano Four Hands and for Two Pianos’

Is there another single-disc recording of all five of the complete original pieces composed by Mendelssohn for piano duet and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

GINASTERA Complete Piano Music

Brilliant Classics’ two-CD album of Ginastera’s complete piano music, coming so soon after François-Xavier Poizat’s fine selection (Piano Classics, 9/15),...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2016

Paris joyeux & triste

Personally, I’ve never been convinced that Stravinsky’s transcription of his 1938 chamber-orchestra piece Dumbarton Oaks does his music (as opposed...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2016

MARTUCCI. PADEREWSKI Piano Concertos

Great, I thought: Nelson Goerner playing the Paderewski concerto – that should be a magnificent match. It’s still an underrated...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016

LINDBERG Cello Concerto No 2

The most significant piece here – in scale and ambition if not duration – is Era, written for the Royal...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2016

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 78 - 81

This is a quietly unusual coupling of Haydn symphonies. Unusual in that No 78 seems more likely to appear with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016

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