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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor, No.10 in G, No 21 in C, No.22 in F Angela Hewitt Hyperion CDA 68220 @ £15 plu P&P Gramphone “Hewitt likes to guide her listener, demonstrating this point and that, which can distract… As you might expect, her way with the fingery textures of the first movement […]

Lassen: Violin Concerto in D Scharwenka: Violin Concert in G Langgaard: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra Lins Roth, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Antony Hermus Hyperion CDA 68268 @ £15 plus P&P The Observer “Roth plays with almost missionary zeal, he and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Antony Hermus, making a convincing case for these […]

Mozart: Piano Concertos Volume 4 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 ‘Elvira Madigan’, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 ‘Elvira Madigan’  Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata Chandos 20083 @ £11 plus P&P The Times “Bavouzet prefers to peck at notes rather than stroke them, which may not bring playing of huge variety. […]

DEBUSSY – The solo piano works performed by Noriko Ogawa on 6 CDs BIS CD 1955 6-CD set @ £28* Includes the five critically acclaimed CDs shown below plus previously unreleased recording of Fantaisie pour piano et orchestra and fiev ‘Fugues d’ecole’ written during Debussy’s time a student of composition. Piano Music Volume 1 Images […]

 Satie: Six Gnossiennes, Le Piccadilly, Chapitres tournés en tous sens, Chapitres tournés en tous sens, Chapitres tournés en tous sens, Sonatine Bureaucratique etc BBC Music Magazine “In this utterly delightful disc [Ogawa] manages to convey not only Satie’s quirkiness, but his honesty…Ogawa does use the sustaining pedal, but sparingly. She also, as we know, has a fine technique and the […]