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Xavier de Maistre: Moldau

Xavier de Maistre last graced these pages in October 2013 with a stunning disc of Mozart. His performance of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

IVES; BERG; WEBERN Concord

Pairing Ives with Second Viennese School composers is not usually the done thing. All the more reason then to attempt...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015

Antonio Meneses: Capriccioso

The cello has never drawn the same crowds as the violin or piano – otherwise the cellist-composers on this recording...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2015

Liza Ferschtman; Tamsin Waley-Cohen Recitals

These two recitals have the Bartók Sonata as an important constituent but their focus is quite different. With Liza Ferschtman...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015

Jorge Bolet: Ambassador from the Golden Age

This astonishing six disc tribute to Jorge Bolet, taken from concerts dating from 1937 89 and from a variety of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2015

USTVOLSKAYA 6 Piano Sonatas

Sabine Liebner on the Neos label is the place to go if you’re after a complete cycle of Galina Ustvolskaya’s...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015

SWEELINCK Ma Jeune Vie A Une Fin

Discs of Sweelinck’s keyboard music are still surprisingly uncommon. Robert Woolley has made a fine if unhurried start on working...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2015

Sibelius on the Ainola Piano

Sibelius’s Steinway grand was a gift from a large cohort of his supporters on his 50th birthday in 1915. That...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2015

RACHMANINOV Complete Piano Works Vol 2

If the outwardly enviable, note-perfect professionalism of so many of today’s pianists can leave you cold and dispirited, the reverse...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2015

MOZART Piano Sonatas K331, K570, K576

A lifetime of experience is the gift bestowed on Menahem Pressler. This thrusting and exploratory leader of the Beaux Arts...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2015

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