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Alexandre Kantorow: Bartók, Brahms, Liszt

By June 2019 when, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the Tchaikovsky...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Pavel Kolesnikov)

In Lindsay Kemp’s fascinating feature on the Goldbergs in the October issue, one of the subjects he addresses is how...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2020

London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy

La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making. If the finely phrased strings bursting with vivacity in the opening...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2020

Hope @ Home

Berlin, as James Jolly reported in his streaming feature (8/20), was the first major city to break the musical silence...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020

NIELSEN Complete Works for Violin Solo and Violin and Piano (Hasse Borup)

The violin was with Nielsen from the beginning. His father was an accomplished amateur, who showed him the way around...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Piano Quartets K478 & 493 (Dejan Lazić at al)

Dejan Lazić explains how Mozart was the cause of his becoming a musician – upon seeing the film Amadeus, no...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas. Trio (de Hoog)

The cello may technically be the star of the show in Mendelssohn’s two cello sonatas but they’re equally works that...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2020

Hoffmeister's Magic Flute, Vol 1

Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) falls into that unfortunate group of composers most famous for a piece of music by someone...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020

FRANCES-HOAD The Whole Earth Dances

Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b1980) has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Champs Hill Records these past few years, this latest release a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2020

Music for a Viennese Salon: Haydn, Kraus, Dittersdorf

Booklet notes by Steven Zohn set the scene for this disc – an imaginary Viennese salon concert from October 1801...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2020

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