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CHOPIN 'Ghosts'

Nino Gvetadze, a new name to me, is a Georgian pianist (b1981, Tbilisi) who makes her home in Amsterdam. Chopin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018

CHOPIN Complete Mazurkas (Mursky)

In a decade of particularly fine recordings of the Chopin Mazurkas, Eugène Mursky’s set of 57 can more than hold...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Helmchen)

No sooner does Alpha release Filippo Gorini’s solo debut CD featuring Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations than the same label issues another...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Organ Works (Kelemen)

This is solid, heavy, monumental Bach. The Hungarian organist Joseph Kelemen adds weight to this programme of Bach works which...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018

JS BACH Dance Suites

Given Fred Thomas’s multifaceted talents as a genre- and boundary-blurring composer and improviser, one would expect his first all-Bach solo...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018

Music in a Cold Climate

In Echo have been assembled by cornettist Gawain Glenton from mainstays of the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Florilegium, Fretwork,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2018

Kian Soltani: Home

You can tell a great deal about performance quality from one crucial consideration: timing. In the context of Schubert’s Arpeggione...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2018

Clarinet Fantasies

The main novelty here is Martin Butler’s Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Pieces, written in 1977 when the composer was just...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2018

SCHUMANN String Quartets Op 41

Not all the members of the Zurich-based Stradivari Quartet play instruments made by the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari. Sebastian Bohren...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018

REICH Pulse. Quartet

From the funky maracas in Four Organs to the famous pulsing chords that are heard at the beginning of Music...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2018

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