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ELLINGTON Piano Works

Luigi Palombi’s disc of Duke Ellington sets up a discussion of those ever-problematic issues raised whenever classical pianists co opt...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

ELGAR Organ Sonata. Vesper Voluntaries.

In 2013 Oxford’s Merton College unveiled its new Dobson organ, a three-manual, 44 stop instrument, built in the US and...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2016

DVOŘÁK From the Bohemian Forest. Dumky

Dvořák left a rich legacy of piano duets, wrenching the genre clean out of the salon. As Artur Pizarro and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016

Dutilleux Piano Sonata No 1

Recordings of Dutilleux’s early, substantial and rather difficult First Piano Sonata are no longer rare events, especially in his 2016...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2016

CHOPIN Ballades. Mazurkas.

Yundi first came to public attention in 2000 when, as simple Yundi Li, he became the youngest-ever winner of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2016

BRAHMS Chaconne. Klavierstücke. Fantasies

Along with many others who heard Anna Vinnitskaya’s recording of Prokofiev and Ravel concertos after her 2007 victory at the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016

Liberte. Egalite. Sororite

The latest album from Diana Ambache’s own label explores six works written between 1861 and 1952, and quietly reminds us...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016

BIBER Imitatio

The preoccupation with representation (or, perhaps more accurately, mimesis) in instrumental music preoccupied Baroque composers from the time of Monteverdi...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016

Flashback: Music for Saxophone and Piano from the 20th Century

The saxophone has a unique status among instruments in having its original reason for existing – as an instrument that...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016

Alliage Quintet: Fantasia

Cocktail-lounge Borodin has limited appeal. Smoky saxophones slink and shimmy through the Polovtsian Dances to open this unusual disc from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2016

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