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Review of MAHLER Symphony No 6

MAHLER Symphony No 6

Gramophone readers should demand the answers to two questions in a review of any new recording of Mahler’s Sixth. To...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of LISZT Complete Années de Pèlerinage

LISZT Complete Années de Pèlerinage

Here, like some valedictory blessing on the Liszt year, are tributes that would surely have brought tears of gratitude from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2012

Review of HANDEL Eight Suites, HWV426-33

HANDEL Eight Suites, HWV426-33

To hear Handel’s complete first book of suites played on the piano is a comparative rarity (among the few available...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music Vol. 1

DOHNÁNYI Complete Solo Piano Music Vol. 1

The auspices are good even before you press the play button: Hyperion, Potton Hall, Ben Connellan (recording engineer), Jeremy Hayes...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of BACH Sonatas and Partitas

BACH Sonatas and Partitas

Having marvelled at Maya Homburger’s final instalment of Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas so recently (2/12), I find myself ever...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of Modern American Bass

Modern American Bass

When I started scribing for a now defunct double bass magazine many years ago, frankly I needed the cash; but...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of USTVOLSKAYA Composition No 2, 'Dies Irae'. Piano Sonata No 6

USTVOLSKAYA Composition No 2, 'Dies Irae'. Piano Sonata No 6

Only Galina Ustvolskaya could have scored a composition for eight double basses, wooden block and piano; only Galina Ustvolskaya could...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of TELEMANN Burlesque de Quixotte

TELEMANN Burlesque de Quixotte

Les Esprits Animaux are a new chamber group formed in 2009 among postgraduate students at the Royal Conservatory of The...

Reviewed by Luca Da Re in issue: 03/2012

Review of STRAVINSKY Divertimento SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonata Op 134

STRAVINSKY Divertimento SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonata Op 134

Though the booklet-note writer declares that between Stravinsky and Shostakovich there is a ‘disparity in the conception of musical art...

Reviewed in issue 03/2012

Review of MOZART Duo Sonatas Vol 5

MOZART Duo Sonatas Vol 5

No disarming benevolence here. It is disquieting business as usual for Duo Amadè. They are closely recorded, probably accentuating the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2012

 

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