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NEBRA From Silence

Writing on José de Nebra (1702-68), Moisès Fernández Via, a young Spanish pianist, laments the incomprehensible neglect of ‘the most...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2012

MERKEL Organ Works Vol 3

Before the election of the current German Chancellor, the name Merkel was, so far as British organists were concerned, synonymous...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW/2012

LOVETT Beyond (and Below)

Do you fancy easy-listening piano fare that’s just as virtuoso yet less cheesy than your average Richard Clayderman or Yanni...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2012

CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas

The Mazurka was a form that engaged Chopin from his teenage years until his death. There are some 62 in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012

CHOPIN. LISZT. SCHUMANN Piano works

Alexandra Dariescu’s solo debut CD offers frequently recorded Romantic repertoire in performances that are generally refined, rounded off but rarely...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2012

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2

Khatia Buniatishvili’s all-Liszt debut disc for Sony (9/11) divided opinion. Its successor will not, I think, raise hackles to quite...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012

BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24. Waltzes, Op 39

In Brahms’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, should a pianist zero in on the overall grand design...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vol 3

How are Beethoven’s markings in the Arietta of Op 111 meant to be interpreted? On the one hand he specifies...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Volume 2

Here is an antidote to the identikit Beethoven, to sonatas (and even cycles) recorded merely because an artist will sell....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2012

PRAULINS The Nightingale; BÖRTZ Nemesis divina

This new disc reinforces the extraordinary strengths of the Danish choral tradition. Here are voices of mature suppleness and agility,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2012

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