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Joseph Moog: Belle Epoque

Despite the title, ‘Belle Époque’, this collection of mostly rare miniatures extends well beyond the temporal boundaries of the era....

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2025

RAVEL Complete Solo Piano Works (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s new Chandos Ravel cycle markedly differs from his 2003 MDG recordings of the composer’s complete solo piano works....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2025

PITFIELD Piano Music (Duncan Honeybourne)

Has Thomas Pitfield’s time finally arrived? Having enjoyed modest composerly success in his very long life (1903 99), as well...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025

Messiaen’s Musical Universe (Tom Bell)

Fugue State Films has changed the face of organ DVDs, this joining ‘Vierne’s Symphonies’ (6/21) and ‘Bach’s Missing Pages’ (9/23)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2025

Nobuyuki Tsujii: Beethoven

In 2009 the 20-year-old Noboyuki Tsujii came to international attention following his first-place victory in the Van Cliburn International Piano...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2025

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (Aaron Pilsan)

A native of Dornbirn in the Austrian Vorarlberg, pianist Aaron Pilsan has a robust online presence as well as a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2025

JS BACH 6 Cello Suites (William Skeen)

The unique selling point of these Bach Solo Cello Suites from US baroque cellist William Skeen (whose various hats include...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2025

Codex Rost 1660-1680

This hugely enjoyable recital anthologises a manuscript collection of instrumental music copied on the edge of the Black Forest in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2025

TELEMANN Paris Quartets, Vol 1

The six Quadri for three melody instruments and continuo that Telemann published in 1730 – but whose successful republication in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2025

SMETANA String Quartets (Zemlinsky Quartet)

Smetana’s two string quartets make uneasy bedfellows – there must be at least five performances of the magnificent First Quartet,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2025

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