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Mikhail Pletnev: Brahms, Chopin, Shor

The Brahms Op 117 Intermezzos that lead off Mikhail Pletnev’s excellently engineered 2023 Berlin recital reveal the pianist’s colouristic gifts...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Vol 5 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

I’ve previously written about how Xaver Scharwenka’s piano-duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies are more resourceful and idiomatic from a pianistic...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH Trio Sonatas (Martin Neu)

Some 12 years have passed since my previous review of Bach’s Six Trio Sonatas for organ. On that occasion (1/12)...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH Die Kunst der Fuge (Aapo Häkkinen)

Bach’s Art of Fugue has, arguably, fared better on piano than harpsichord, especially in recent years, with fine renditions from...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2024

JS BACH The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 9: Köthen (Benjamin Alard)

Benjamin Alard’s project to record Bach’s complete harpsichord and organ music is laudable and ambitious, of interest in particular for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024

The Pre-Raphaelite Cello (Adrian Bradbury)

‘What in the dazes is Pre-Raphaelite music?’ I hear you ask – as well you might, as this is a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024

Cantabile: Anthems For Viola (Jordan Bak)

Modern recordings of Arnold Bax’s great Viola Sonata are thin on the ground and so it is a joy to...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 07/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartets Vol 1 (Dudok Quartet)

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam enjoy a healthy Tchaikovsky lineage. They studied with Marc Danel, whose Quatuor Danel in turn studied...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2024

STRAUSS Piano Quartet. Metamorphosis (Trio Arnold)

Strauss’s chamber music output for strings is such that there aren’t many obvious programming combinations. As a result, this isn’t...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2024

SCHUBERT String Quartets D112; 887

In an interesting booklet note for this formidably competitive release, Richard Wigmore remarks, concerning the epic Quartet No 15 in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024

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