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PROKOFIEV Complete Piano Sonatas

This four-CD set of Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas also includes several fist-shaking gestures for his early anti-Romanticism, complemented by other...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2011

CHOPIN; LISZT; RAVEL Piano works

Benjamin Grosvenor is not only the first British pianist to be signed by Decca since the days of Clifford Curzon,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 3

In wishing Martha Argerich a happy 70th birthday on a recent blog, Stephen Hough, referring to a film clip of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011

ROSSINI William Tell

It is nearly 40 years since EMI released its classic recording of Guillaume Tell, Rossini’s epic final opera; every note...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2011

BEETHOVEN Symphonies

The fact that the classic impulse vies with the Romantic throughout Beethoven’s nine symphonies presents a perennial problem to would-be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: A/2011

MOZART Symphonies Nos 36, 38 & 40

Lost in transcription? Most definitely; but let’s be gracious towards Jean-Baptiste Cimador (1761-1805) who, with the best of intentions, arranged...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2011

LISZT 'My Piano Hero'

Lang Lang’s contribution to the composer’s bicentenary is a “those you love” programme spiced with more ambitious and imaginative choices....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2011

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Those of us who have thrilled to Dudamel with his Simón Bolívar orchestra in concert have to take a little...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW/2011

JS BACH Concertos for Oboe

For the uncontrived and unalloyed delights of Bach’s oboe-writing, this is a recital of a rare questing elegance. While our...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2011

MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin and Piano. String Quintet No 2

The opus number, like the booklet-note, is misleading: dating from two years before Mendelssohn’s final, anguished Quartet, Op 80, the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW/2011

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