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CHOPIN Piano Trio. Cello Sonata

I find it odd that, with two works in which the piano takes the lead, it’s Johannes Moser whose photo...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015

BRESNICK Prayers Remain Forever

Martin Bresnick’s reputation as one of America’s most prominent composition teachers sometimes overshadows his own very considerable creative gifts and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015

BRAHMS Piano Trio No 3 SCHUBERT Piano Trio No 2

An impressive opening to Brahms’s Trio, Allegro energico as specified. Instrumental balance too is just. But Wu Qian tends to...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2015

BARTÓK String Quartets Nos 1 & 5

Meta4 connect well with Bartók’s sense of humour. Take the meaningful glissandos from 3'43" into the fifth movement of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015

Jiří Vodička: Violin Solo

Jiří Vodička is the young soloist of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava and has already made a considerable name...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

Guitarra Clásica del Perú

Sucre, Bolivia, 2004. A man stops the American historian William L Lofstrom in the street and offers to sell him...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2015

Grounds for Pleasure

This disc has two themes to bind it: English keyboard music of the 17th century, and pieces composed over a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015

Guiomar Novaes: The complete published 78-rpm recordings

‘Guiomar Novaes: The Complete Published 78rpm Recordings’ consists largely of those short-but-sweet encore pieces that had her adoring audiences (notably...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

CHOPIN Preludes SCHUBERT Klavierstücke PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 7

Four years after winning the 2010 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw – the first woman to do so since Martha...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

SCULTHORPE Complete Works for Solo Piano

The last time I saw Peter Sculthorpe, who died in August aged 85, was two years ago when I visited...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2015

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