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COLES. HOLST Piano Music (James Willshire)

The close academic and latterly informal relationship between Gustav Holst and Cecil Coles underpins this release of their piano music,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2021

Kit Armstrong: The Visionaries of Piano Music

In a cogent and provocative essay introducing his recording of works by William Byrd and John Bull, pianist Kit Armstrong...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Op 109-111 (Sunwook Kim)

A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vols 7-9 (Boris Giltburg)

To mark Beethoven’s 2020 anniversary year, Boris Giltburg set himself the task of filming all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021

JS BACH Six Partitas (Mahan Esfahani)

For his recording of Bach’s Partitas, Mahan Esfahani uses a harpsichord built by the workshop of Jukka Ollikka in Prague,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021

Randall Goosby: Roots

Revisiting my notes on this first recording by the American violinist Randall Goosby, I find that the word I’ve scribbled...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2021

Simon Höfele: New Standards

Despite a bewilderingly facile interview between the trumpeter and pianist which is, in effect, the complete booklet (one page is...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2021

Tine Thing Helseth: Magical Memories For Trumpet and Organ

There are some artists who have the unteachable gift of turning the simplest, most ordinary and even third-rate music into...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021

Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain

The year 2021 is a fine one for British musical centenarians, whether the composers Robert Simpson and Malcolm Arnold or...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2021

Toby Hughes: Elegy

Despite its title, Toby Hughes’s debut album is not so much a disc of elegies as an examination of the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2021

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