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CHISHOLM Songs

Linguists, ethno-musicologists and anthropologists may well be automatically attracted to this Erik Chisholm album of Scottish song and verse, dating...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2021

Appena Chiudo Gli Occhi: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violin ( Giuseppina Bridelli)

The Sicilian Alessandro Scarlatti and the Venetian Antonio Caldara probably crossed paths several times in Rome, for example during Lent...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2021

Sean Shibe: Camino

The album cover shows Sean Shibe shorn of his luxuriant locks; photos inside catch him in the act itself, wielding...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2021

Francisco Fullana: Bach's Long Shadow

Francisco Fullana is hardly the first young violinist to choose Bach for a debut solo album. But not everyone does...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2021

Tchaikovsky Plus One Vol 3 (Barry Douglas)

The third volume of Barry Douglas’s ‘Tchaikovsky Plus One’ series matches its predecessors (12/18, 12/19) for inspired programming and noble...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2021

Sebastian Knauer: The Mozart / Nyman Concert

Nyman and Mozart go back a long way. In the booklet notes to Sebastian Knauer’s ‘The Mozart/Nyman Concert’, Nyman recalls...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2021

MOZART Sonatas For Piano Four Hands (Rados & Gerstein)

This has to be the CD equivalent of hygge. Russian-born American pianist Kirill Gerstein’s Mozart dialogue with his octogenarian mentor...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2021

MOSZKOWSKI Piano Works, Vol 1 (Ian Hobson)

‘If I pass him by, who will praise Moritz Moszkowski?’ asked JB Priestley in Delight, his life-affirming collection of essays...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2021

LISZT Complete Soirees de Vienne (Alberto Ferro)

Today, when Schubert’s canonic status in Western music has been long established, it is easily forgotten that his true measure...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2021

CHOPIN Preludes. Andante Spianato. Grande Polonaise Brillante (Charles Richard-Hamelin)

It is not always a good sign that, when listening to a new recording of familiar music for review purposes,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2021

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