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JOSQUIN Baisiez Moy

This would be a terrific Christmas present for your Josquin-fan friend. Not only are the performances all on an extremely...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2021

ELGAR Where Corals Lie – A Journey through Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)

A major-label Elgar song recital would seem to be overdue. Beyond the well-known Sea Pictures, ‘The Muleteer’s Serenade’, taken directly...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2021

I BOYLE Songs

‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition. The only thing to say...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2021

Magdalena Kožená: Nostalgia

On the face of it, the three composers represented on Magdalena Kožená’s latest album have next to nothing in common....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021

JS BACH The Art of Fugue (Filippo Gorini. Daniil Trifonov)

When we say Bach was a family man, what do we mean? Albums such as the ‘Alt-Bachisches Archiv’ from Cantus...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021

Christoph Croisé: The Solo Album

Christoph Croisé gives an exceptionally free account of Kodály’s monumental Solo Sonata, applying rubato copiously throughout. It’s a somewhat risky...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021

Cordelia Williams: Nightlight

>It is sometimes said, only half-jokingly, that Schubert didn’t write for the piano, but against it. Even among the most...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021

Anna Lapwood: Images

For her recital debut album on Signum Classics, Anna Lapwood has chosen an unusual programme that includes three transcriptions of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2021

Calum Huggan: American Music for Marimba

Percussionist Calum Huggan’s debut solo album, alongside displaying his technical chops and sensitivity, shows how open the marimba is for...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2021

YSAŸE Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op 27 (Jack Liebeck)

Yet another vividly colour-coded set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, music that seems to have sidled up alongside Bartók’s late...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021

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