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HAYDN The Creation (Janowski)
This set preserves a live concert of Haydn’s oratorio masterpiece from a couple of summers ago. On its own terms,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2024
HANDEL 'Freedom - Oratorio Arias' (Oscar Verhaar)
When I was an undergraduate, discussions about Handel’s nationality raged, before attention turned to his sexuality. Both debates are now...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024
FAURÉ La Bonne Chanson. L'Horizon chimérique. Ballade. Mélodies (Stéphane Degout)
To mark this year’s centenary of Fauré’s death, Stéphane Degout and Alain Planès survey five of his song-cycles in this...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2024
JS BACH; TELEMANN 'Himmelfahrt'
Bach composed four cantatas for Ascension Day in Leipzig, and here are two of them complemented by the premiere recording...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024
JS BACH 'A Life in Music Vol 1'
I hail the advent of a new miniseries from Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants, having already found their previous...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2024
Melody Lin: Virtuoso Harpsichord Music
This is a debut release for harpsichordist Melody Lin, showcasing her impressive finger dexterity in a selection of the instrument’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2024
Yuja Wang: The Vienna Recital
At first, the programme for this recital might seem haphazard, with two excerpts from Iberia separated by Scriabin and Kapustin...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
Piers Lane: Russian Variations
Here, on the face of it, is an enticing quartet of works that have in common Russian composers and/or Russian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024
REGER 'Lieder von Johannes Brahms' (Rudolf Buchbinder)
In 1904 the firm of Simrock approached Max Reger with the offer of an exclusive contract. Reger was clearly flattered...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2024
MUFFAT Componimenti musicali per il cembalo (Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya)
Gottlieb Muffat was Georg Muffat’s son, lesser known today than his father but a formidable musician and composer in his...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2024
Yundi: Mozart - The Sonata Project
Here’s a pianist who once had all the hallmarks of a Chinese piano superstar: early success at a major competition...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2024
LISZT B-Minor Sonata. Petrarch Sonnets. Valse oubliee no 2 (Nelson Goerner)
There are some albums submitted for review where just the mention of the pianist’s name guarantees a rewarding and insightful...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024
GRIEG Holberg Suite. Ballade. Lyric Pieces (Andrey Gugnin)
For his fourth Hyperion album, Andrey Gugnin moves from Scriabin, Godowskian associates and Shostakovich to Grieg, where his stylistic and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024
DEBUSSY; KOMITAS 'Music in Time of War'
This recording originated in Kirill Gerstein’s pandemic study of Debussy’s Études, but it’s also grounded in his recognition that we...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
Janne Mertanen: 'Chopin'
When seemingly unusual details emerge from an interpretation of a thrice-familiar work, it’s often because the performer is taking certain...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2024
JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Masato Suzuki)
There is nothing extravagant, idiosyncratic or exceptional about this recording except its infallible good taste. Harpsichordist Masato Suzuki, who serves...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2024
JS BACH Keyboard Partitas (Martin Helmchen)
It is still relatively rare these days for established mainstream pianists to fall for an old instrument hook, line and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2024
Rachel Podger: The Muses Restor’d
Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones; sonatas, suites, concerts, grounds and popular tunes … this exploration...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
Love Music
‘O sink upon us, night of love …’ Well, ‘Love Music’ is the title of this album from pianist Yeol...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024
The Golden Age of Hollywood: Concert Works for Violin and Piano
‘The Golden Age of Hollywood’: it’s an attractive idea for a recital, made even more interesting by the fact that...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024
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