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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 29 (Marc-André Hamelin)

Marc-André Hamelin launches into the Hammerklavier Sonata’s opening Allegro with both assertion and transparency. He intelligently scales his dynamics and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Matthew Barley: Light Stories

Harrowing is not a word one would normally associate with a solo cello recital, even one – as here –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH 'The Great Toccata' (Daniel Moult)

How many can recall their first encounter with JS Bach’s celebrated organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565? I...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Six English Suites (Zhu Xiao-Mei)

Although Zhu-Xiao Mei’s somewhat under-the-radar engagement with Bach’s keyboard output has so far encompassed the Goldberg Variations, Well-Tempered Clavier, Art...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2024

Tharaud plays Bach

In September 2005 Nalen Anthoni signed off his review of Alexandre Tharaud’s disc of Bach concerto transcriptions with the words,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2024

CPE BACH Sonatas with Varied Reprises (Tom Beghin)

Have you ever wondered whether classical composers expected performers to vary the repeated sections in sonata movements? This recording sets...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2024

Milestones: The Jazz Album

Quatuor Ébène’s new jazz album ‘Milestones’ takes its name from the classic Miles Davis long-player from 1958, a time described...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2024

An Evening in Vienna 1784

The entertaining ghosted memoirs of the Irish tenor Michael Kelly, the first Basilio in Figaro, need to be taken with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024

YE Chamber Music

The output of Xiaogang Ye (b1955) has become relatively familiar in the West, and not just at festivals or retrospectives...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2024

C&E SCHUMANN Works for Viola; for Oboe; for Clarinet

How prescient of Schumann to designate many of his sets of domestic chamber miniatures for a choice of instruments. Not...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

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