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BACH Cantatas for Ascension Day

The final disc in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach cantata cycle offers the four works for Ascension Day – cantatas...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013

BEETHOVEN; HAYDN Variations

Emanuel Ax is on top form for his first solo CD in many years. In contrast to the genial, well-played...

Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013

L'enfance: Fauré, Bizet, Debussy, Ravel

All too often we regard piano duets as somewhat childish pleasures but there’s nothing emotionally juvenile about any of the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2013

WAGNER Transcribed for 2 Pianos

The heyday of piano ensemble transcriptions from orchestral and operatic scores more or less coincided with the height of Richard...

Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013

MOERAN Complete Solo Piano Music

One of the great discoveries of my youth was the Symphony in G minor of EJ Moeran. This almost went...

Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 07/2013

MILANO Lute Music

What better vehicle for the artistry of one of today’s most gifted lutenists could there be than the music of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2013

HAYDN Piano Sonatas Vol 5

With the appearance of the fifth volume of his Haydn keyboard sonata survey, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has now covered 22 sonatas...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2013

CHOPIN Sonatas & Ballades

‘A talented young pianist worth watching’ was how I summed up my generally positive review of Vassily Primakov’s 2004 all-Chopin...

Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013

JS BACH 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830

In the intelligent booklet-notes accompanying David Korevaar’s recording of Bach’s Partitas, the pianist discusses the music’s dance origins in extensive,...

Reviewed by Distler in issue: 07/2013

Vocalise

Adam Walker, principal flute of the LSO, tells us that the music he performs here ‘has at its heart the...

Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 07/2013

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