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Motets of the Bach Family (Ensemble Polyharmonique. Tölzer Knabenchor)

Bach drafted an annotated genealogy of his extensive musical family in about 1735 and he had a collection of mostly...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023

Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (Rosalind Ventris)

Recent releases such as song-cycles by Robert Hugill (Navona, 1/18) or the Celtic-inspired miscellany ‘Between Earth and Sea’ (Tyˆ Cerdd)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023

Anthony Romaniuk: Perpetuum

Anthony Romaniuk follows up his brilliant ‘Bells’ (11/20) with ‘Perpetuum’, another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

Chopin's Epoque: Piano Works By Gutmann, Filtsch, Mikuli, Fontan, Rothschild & Tellefsen

So all-embracing was Chopin’s influence on piano composition that few composers writing in the idiom (rather than that of Schumann,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

Hopkinson Smith: Bright & Early

If anything, ‘late style’ is more about a renewed sense of freedom, of expanded possibilities, of a more capacious creativity,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2023

Romeo & Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano (Yevgeny Sudbin)

It must have been quite a headache for BIS to come up with a title for Yevgeny Sudbin’s latest album....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2023

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D537; 959 (Garrick Ohlsson)

This is quite an inspired pairing, even if it risks giving you the mother of all earworms after hearing one...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Volume 6 (Peter Donohoe)

Peter Donohoe launched his Mozartian labour of love a little over four years ago (4/19) and completes it with a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023

LITOLFF Piano Music, Vol 1 (Tingyue Jiang)

Very little of Litolff’s music has appeared on record – surprising for a pianist-composer who in his day (1818 91)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

JONGEN 13 Preludes. 24 Petits Preludes Dans Tous Les Tons (Ivan Ilić)

Most people, I suppose, associate the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) with organ music, most notably his wonderful Sinfonia concertante...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023

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