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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 29

Often known as ‘the Mount Everest of the keyboard’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata poses every conceivable problem, musically and technically (though...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Mass in B minor

With major Bach vocal works now appearing on Hyperion, notably under Stephen Layton, the absence of an à la mode...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

JS BACH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014

CHOPIN Preludes

It says a lot for this disc that, when Gramophone’s Editor chose it as his Recording of the Month and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014

Murray Perahia plays Chopin

A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As...

Reviewed by James Jolly in issue: 3/2011

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas

How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014

Sacred Love

Pushkin, Blok, Gogol, Pasternak: some fine Russian writers come together here. Their elusive and allusive verses both invite and defy...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014

BAX Four Orchestral Pieces

Composed in Rathgar, Dublin, and powerfully evocative of the County Wicklow landscape, Bax’s Four Orchestral Pieces were first heard in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014

A Tribute To Penderecki

As Poland’s most famous living composer, Penderecki might expect to have been feted on his 80th birthday, as indeed it...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

Music for Remembrance

This is an exquisite performance of the Duruflé Requiem, beautifully evoking the inherent intimacy of the version with chamber orchestra...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

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