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SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas

In the main, Igor Kamenz’s Scarlatti recital serves up unsatisfying interpretations of favourite pieces. Notice the purposeless elongations at phrase...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonatas Nos 5 & 6.

Though the track list has it as Op 38, the Fifth Sonata should really be listed as Op 135, the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

MOZART Piano Sonatas Nos 3-5, 10 & 13

No angularities or vertically oriented sounds here. Instead, the capacity of the modern piano for a horizontally sustained line is...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2014

MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Perhaps more than most of Mendelssohn’s output, the Songs Without Words have contributed to the saccharine image that history has...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014

Bianconi plays Chopin

Philippe Bianconi has not enjoyed an exactly high-profile career since winning the silver medal at the Seventh Van Cliburn International...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014

BRIAN Complete Piano Music

Although this is the second CD issue devoted to Havergal Brian’s complete piano music, it was the first to be...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 2. Variations. 3 Intermezzi

Brahms’s F sharp minor Sonata is at the heart of Jonathan Plowright’s second volume of the composer’s complete piano works....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN; SCRIABIN; ARAPOV Piano Sonatas

The microphone has been Sokolov’s declared enemy for some while, in the concert hall as well as the studio, so...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2014

JS BACH Cello Suites

Viola de Hoog was the cellist of the Schoenberg Quartet. However, alongside her affinity with the music of the Second...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014

Lisa Houben: Vieni, amor mio!

This CD comprises Italian love songs by composers better known for their operas. Surprisingly, they include few that are well-known,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014

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