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DICKINSON Piano Music

This disc gathers together all of composer, pianist and fellow Gramophone critic Peter Dickinson’s piano rags, blues and stylistic take-offs,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2012

BRAHMS Rhapsodies, Intermezzi, Piano Pieces

For his debut recital disc, the young French pianist Jonas Vitaud offers Brahms’s Op 79 Rhapsodies and the Op 117,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2012

JS BACH Violin Sonata BWV1005. Partita BWV1006. GUY Lysandra

This CD completes a trilogy born of the deeply collaborative partnership between Swiss-born Baroque violinist Maya Homburger and British composer...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2012

JS BACH 6 Partitas

Elina Mustonen, a harpsichordist from Finland who studied with Ton Koopman, is a fine player, scrupulously attentive to the music...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012

Latin Perspective

Despite the boundaries between classical and popular music becoming increasingly blurred, there’s always been a market for serious music that...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2012

An Italian Rant!

The rant in question is an entertainingly free arrangement of one of the most popular 17th-century Italian dance songs, published...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 02/2012

Songs and Dances from Spain

This is an attractive recital of transcriptions of favourite Spanish pieces – I hesitate to describe them as ‘lollipops’ as...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2012

WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 5

When reviewing the Danels’ first two instalments (3/08, 2/09), I was as impressed by their preparation and absorption in Weinberg’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Complete wks for violin & piano

The most substantial piece on this record of all Tchaikovsky’s chamber music for violin is actually an arrangement, one he...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2012

SCHUMANN Piano Trios Op 63 & 110

Period-instrument Schumann is an as yet little-explored area when it comes to the chamber music. So Voces Intimae, on paper...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2012

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