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Review of Sean Shibe: Profesion

Sean Shibe: Profesion

Barrios was an undisputed master of the guitar, Villa-Lobos a desultory practitioner, Ginastera a non-playing admirer of its unique sound...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2023

Review of JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas, Vol 2 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas, Vol 2 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Frank Peter Zimmermann’s solo Bach was a lockdown project hatched at home, begun with no definite intention of recording but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2023

Review of JS BACH The French Suites (Mahan Esfahani)

JS BACH The French Suites (Mahan Esfahani)

For his earlier recording of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach (8/23), Mahan Esfahani used both a clavichord and a...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2023

Review of Eros: Bridge, Grime, Eröd & Ginastera

Eros: Bridge, Grime, Eröd & Ginastera

Winner of the 2019 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the Mithras Trio launch...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2023

Review of Gautier Capuçon: Destination Paris

Gautier Capuçon: Destination Paris

We last encountered Gautier Capuçon on his album ‘Sensations’ (1/23), striding at low tide towards Mont Saint-Michel with cello in...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2023

Review of Beyond Twilight: Music For Cello & Piano By Female Composers

Beyond Twilight: Music For Cello & Piano By Female Composers

It was time resulting from lockdown that prompted Alexandra Mackenzie and Ingrid Sawers to delve into this wealth of largely...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023

Review of FARRENC Piano Trios Nos 2 & 4 (Linos Ensemble)

FARRENC Piano Trios Nos 2 & 4 (Linos Ensemble)

Overcoming the prejudice and condescension of the Parisian establishment, Louise Farrenc (1804‑75) was the most successful female composer of her...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023

Review of BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 KRENEK Trio-Fantasia (Feininger Trio)

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 KRENEK Trio-Fantasia (Feininger Trio)

The Feininger Trio here bring together works of two Viennese masters, written when both were young men near the beginning...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2023

Review of ALESSANDRINI Leçons de ténèbres

ALESSANDRINI Leçons de ténèbres

Many 20th-century composers relished bringing borrowed materials into contact with the new modernist qualities, as a special kind of dramatic...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2023

Review of ADÈS Alchymia

ADÈS Alchymia

The title of Thomas Adès’s clarinet quintet is pregnant with implications of how composers turn base notes into musical gold,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023


 

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