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Olga Jegunova: Poetic Piano Sonatas

Poetry and music make for natural bedfellows and so Olga Jegunova’s generally pleasing programme of ‘Poetic Piano Sonatas’, in this...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

BARTÓK Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion

Had Alfred Cortot recorded Bartók the results may have sounded a little like this: in other words, rhythmically free, colourful...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

JS BACH Partitas for Harpsichord BWV825-830

Bach the inexhaustible. What we know about his music, from musicologists such as Christoph Wolff and Michael Marissen, has been...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017

Kristian Krogsøe: A Tribute to J S Bach

This CD’s ingenious programme celebrates the influence of Bach on 19th- and 20th-century composers, and its seven pieces fall neatly...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 03/2017

BACH; BARTÓK; BOULEZ Works for Solo Violin

‘It is a concert!’ begins Michael Barenboim in the engaging booklet-notes he’s written to accompany this recording. And indeed it...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017

CPE BACH Organ Sonatas

If one needed a musical pick-me-up, nothing better could refresh a jaded ear than this sparkling, generously filled disc of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017

AMBROSINI Songbook for Guitar

Is it going too far to say that Claudio Ambrosini has written, in his 1975 work for solo guitar Notturno...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2017

Twentieth Century Music for Violin & Piano

What might seem at first glance a bit of a hotchpotch of a disc, on closer acquaintance listens like a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017

SCHUMANN; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

There is much to enjoy on this DVD. Individually the young Polish musicians are all accomplished and conscientious, and their...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2017

SCHULHOFF Complete String Quartets

This is the first comprehensive set of the music for string quartet by a composer whose notated yet completely silent...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017

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