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BEETHOVEN The Late Piano Sonatas

To choose the last three Beethoven sonatas as your debut recording might be seen as headstrong, but the last five?...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013

CPE BACH Solo Keyboard Music Vols 25 & 26

These volumes continue to affirm Miklós Spányi’s exemplary musicianship and clavichord prowess, as well as to draw further attention to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2013

20th Century Cello Sonatas

On two Somm CDs the excellent cellist Alexander Baillie, with his pianist, John Thwaites, has collected six enjoyable British cello...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2013

STENHAMMAR String Quartets Nos 3 & 4

As relatively recently as 1983 in these pages, Robert Layton felt it necessary to preface his review of a recording...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013

SCHOENBERG String Quartet No 1. Verklärte Nacht

Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and String Quartet No 1 are both single-movement symphonic structures, rich in polyphonic detail and ending with...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013

RACHMANINOV Piano Trios

You have to wonder whether Ashkenazy would ever have made this disc were it not for the fact that it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013

RACHMANINOV Works for 2 Pianos

Which would you prefer? A great, revelatory performance on an acoustic disc or a good performance in digital sound? Fondamenta...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013

MOZART Clarinet Quintet K581. String Quartet K421

If you want a recording of Mozart’s Quintet on a conventional clarinet, Jörg Widmann and the Arcanto Quartet are up...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013

HARLE Art Music

John Harle quotes Picasso in suggesting that ‘a painting should have an immediate, visceral effect’, and tells us that his...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2013

GOEHR Since Brass, Nor Stone...

Having enjoyed a disc of Goehr’s orchestral works a few months back (Naxos, 3/13), I’ve found it instructive to turn...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013

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