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Review of JS BACH 5 Keyboard Concertos

JS BACH 5 Keyboard Concertos

The inter-reliance of keyboard and orchestra creating something ‘positively embedded’ (beyond mere dialogue) represents both the practical and ideological substance...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2011

Review of Hispania & Japan

Hispania & Japan

In many ways a sequel to ‘Road to the Orient’ (1/08), tracing the travels of St Francis Xavier, this delicately...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011

Review of Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher

This fascinating film, which has already won the 2009 Berner Film Prize, is the result of Peter Guyer and Norbert...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011

Review of 'Around Jacob van Eyck'

'Around Jacob van Eyck'

Jacob van Eyck is known only from Der Fluyten Lust-hof, two volumes containing some 140 unaccompanied variation-sets for soprano recorder,...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2011

Review of REICH WTC 9/11. Mallet Quartet. Dance Patterns

REICH WTC 9/11. Mallet Quartet. Dance Patterns

It’s not surprising that composers feel drawn to commemorate shattering events taking place in their midst – it goes back...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2011

Review of ONSLOW Complete Piano Trios Volumes 3 & 4

ONSLOW Complete Piano Trios Volumes 3 & 4

CPO is a great champion of the second-rate and the Anglo-French composer George Onslow, born 14 years after Beethoven and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011

Review of CARDEW Solo Without Accompaniment FREY Exact Dimension..

CARDEW Solo Without Accompaniment FREY Exact Dimension..

Since the dawn of modernism – make that since the dawn of any activity that those involved were minded to...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011

Review of BRAHMS Viola Sonatas

BRAHMS Viola Sonatas

Though Brahms’s Op 120 Sonatas were composed for clarinet and piano, they belong just as firmly to the viola repertoire....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2011

Review of BLACKFORD Concerto for Recorder and String Quartet HURD Violin Sonata

BLACKFORD Concerto for Recorder and String Quartet HURD Violin Sonata

This recital brings together a sequence of 10 brief works by three British composers, in music above all designed to...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2011

Review of BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata 1. String Quartet No 15

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata 1. String Quartet No 15

Late Bach and Beethoven make compelling bedfellows, particularly when linked by the medium of the string quartet; these are live...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2011

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Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...

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