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Review of RACHMANINOV Piano Works (Jean-Paul Gasparian)

RACHMANINOV Piano Works (Jean-Paul Gasparian)

This is the first appearance in these pages of the French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (b1995, Paris) but I suspect he...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022

Review of BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14, 17 & 23 (Nikolai Lugansky)

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14, 17 & 23 (Nikolai Lugansky)

This is the second volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Beethoven to have come my way and the ruggedness that coloured his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022

Review of JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 2 (Linus Roth)

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 2 (Linus Roth)

While not wishing to brand this comely trio of performances a ‘throwback’, it does bring in its train a key...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

Review of Psappha: Commissions

Psappha: Commissions

It hardly seems three decades since Tim Williams founded the Manchester-based Psappha, its track record in terms of commissioning or...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022

Review of Coco: Origins

Coco: Origins

Those with eyes and ears fixed on the BBC Young Musician competition will know that in 2020 the strings final...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

Review of Fractales

Fractales

Ensemble Fractales are a specialist new music chamber group comprising flautist Renata Kambarova, clarinettist Benjamin Maneyrol, violinist (and occasional viola...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

Review of English Music for Viola and Piano (Sarah-Jane Bradley)

English Music for Viola and Piano (Sarah-Jane Bradley)

The viola has been the source of inspiration behind a good deal of chamber music written by 20th-century British composers...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2022

Review of SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG Piano Trios. Songs

SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG Piano Trios. Songs

The relationship between Shostakovich and Weinberg has often been discussed over recent years, this collection throwing the reciprocal nature of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022

Review of SCHUBERT Violin Sonata. Rondo. Fantasie (Viktoria Mullova)

SCHUBERT Violin Sonata. Rondo. Fantasie (Viktoria Mullova)

Schubert’s three mature works for violin and piano make an ideal disc-length programme, the Duo Sonata (1817) expanding on the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022

Review of PAUS 'Cabin Fever'

PAUS 'Cabin Fever'

This enterprising programme of music by Marcus Paus (b1979) is adroitly presented. Disc 1 comprises a set of (to use...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

 

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