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This set is devoted to the Music for Piano series almost entirely written in the 1950s, which is neglected and mostly unavailable. You can see why performers have found these pieces less attractive.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The Intermezzo, Op 116 No 4, was originally titled 'Nocturne' and Murdoch calls it 'one of the most peaceful creations in the whole literature of the pianoforte'. Not so Leonskaja, whose fractionally... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006More…

On the whole the Leipzigers don't drive the music too hard, but there's a motoring energy to the first movements of both Brahms works. And when the Sextet's second theme comes soaring in for... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 4 out of 5 starsMore…