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JS BACH St Matthew Passion (arr Mendelssohn)
The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
ALFANO Songs
Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
The Journey of Orpheus; Andreas Staier: Méditation
These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
Eternity
This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
Schubert + Brahms 2 (Can Çakmur)
If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024
PÄRT Diagrams: Complete Piano Music (Tähe-Lee Liiv)
Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
FINNIS 'Youth'
Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
FAURÉ Complete Music for Solo Piano (Lucas Debargue)
Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
CZERNY Nocturnes (Roberte Mamou)
It’s the fate of the Austrian composer Carl Czerny to be known not as the composer of over 1000 compositions...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
BROWN 24 Preludes and Fugues (Nathan Williamson)
In 2011 Christopher Brown began composing 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, completing them in time for his 70th birthday...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 8 & 12 (Gianluca Cascioli)
For his first recording on a fortepiano, Gianluca Cascioli has chosen works by Beethoven composed and published between 1796 and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
BEETHOVEN Complete Variations for Piano, Vol 2 ( Cédric Tiberghien)
Cédric Tiberghien’s notion of mixing things up, done with such mastery in the first volume of his complete Beethoven variations...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
JS BACH Organ Works Vol 5 (Masaaki Suzuki)
As with Vol 4 of Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach series (A/23), this new disc was recorded in Grauhof’s Stiftskirche St Georg,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Anastasia Kobekina: Venice
Silvestrov, Dowland, Shaw, Rota, Brian Eno … none of these names immediately suggest Venice, but the fact that they appear...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2024
A Room of Her Own
‘A Room of Her Own’ continues the Neave Trio’s exploration of works by female composers begun four years ago with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The Golden Hour: Francoeur, Rebel, Leclair
The hour referenced in the title is the period in the early decades of the 18th century when Italian influence...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2024
SCHUMANN Works with Wind Instruments
Whatever you think of Schumann’s orchestrational abilities, he had a marvellous sense of instrumental character. How perfectly suited the three...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
SCHUBERT Octet (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Soloists)
While clarinettists and violinists – horn players, too – may disagree, Schubert’s hedonistic Octet has always seemed to me virtually...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
SCHENCK L’Echo du Danube
For someone who had never even heard of Johann Schenck, two discs totalling almost two hours of his music is...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2024
PEJAČEVIĆ Chamber Music
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
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