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BASTON Flemish and French Chansons

As composer of a dozen motets, 30 French songs and seven Flemish songs, mostly printed in Antwerp or Leuven from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2022

BANKS Vocal and Chamber Music

The Australian Don Banks, who died prematurely at the age of 56, was a significant figure in the musical life...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022

Tournament for Twenty Fingers

Despite its catchy title, this is not, I’m afraid, a recording that is going to set the world on fire....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022

Mariam Batsashvili: Romantic Piano Masters

Although this is essentially a Liszt album – no surprise, as Batsashvili was the first female winner of the International...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2022

Sean Shibe: Lost & Found

The first thing that comes to mind when seeing the cover of protean guitarist Sean Shibe’s latest release is Watteau’s...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2022

Evocations - Contemporary Organ Music (Christian von Blohn)

Don’t be put off by this album’s subtitle, ‘Contemporary Organ Music’. Although there are some ‘tough’ patches, these five pieces...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2022

Gustav Leonhardt: Elizabethan Organ Music

Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) had a long and extraordinarily productive career, and his discography includes not just the legendary harpsichord recordings...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2022

Nurit Stark: Bartók, Ligeti, Veress, Eötvös

The supremely gifted Israeli violinist/viola player Nurit Stark has a passion for contemporary music and her command of tonal colour,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2022

Alexander Gadjiev: A & N Tcherepnin, Prokofiev

Sources close to the 2021 Chopin Competition jury say that had it not been for some inspired risk-taking from the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2022

PACHELBEL Organ Works, Vol 2 (Matthew Owens)

Matthew Owens’s first album of Pachelbel’s organ works from The Queen’s College, Oxford (10/21) was praised for his sensitive insights...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2022

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