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Emil Gilels Early Recordings Vol 3

Few pianists have possessed a more comprehensive, magisterial technique or musical integrity than Emil Gilels (his early volatility later calming...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

WIDOR The Organ Symphonies, Vol 1

Aficionados of Widor’s Toccata will be interested to know that Joseph Nolan adopts the slow and stately approach, rather than...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2012

TARTINI Sonatas for Solo Violin

Recordings of Tartini’s violin sonatas are relatively rare. Two excellent recordings by period players come to mind: those of Elizabeth...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2012

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Works Vol 1

Saint-Saëns once claimed he produced music ‘as an apple tree produces apples’, revelling in his ability to conjure virtually anything...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte. Miroirs. Gaspard de la Nuit

Debussy once declared that Ravel possessed ‘the most refined ear that has ever existed’ and it is to Anna Vinnitskaya’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

RACHMANINOV Moments musicaux

Here, even in Rachmaninov’s most savage and turbulent pages, is playing of an awesome clarity and poise. Xiayin Wang makes...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

PALMGREN Sonata in D minor. May Night. 24 Preludes

At last, a modern recording devoted to Selim Palmgren (1878-1951), a Finnish composer and pianist who has languished in obscurity...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes Op 34

Katya Apekisheva’s previous disc of Grieg’s solo works (Quartz, 9/08) was well received by Bryce Morrison. I should like to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2012

DEBUSSY Preludes & Transcriptions

Alexei Lubimov, unlike most pianists, wants us to hear Debussy ‘in a different timbral guise, cloaked in the early 20th-century...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2012

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas (excl Nos 19 & 20)

No sooner has the first double-disc release in HJ Lim’s Beethoven sonata survey (5/12) appeared than EMI releases the entire...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2012

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