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HAYDN Piano Sonatas, Vol 2 (Markus Becker)

Previously lauded for his 12-disc Reger survey (Thorofon, A/02), Markus Becker issued his first Haydn album four years ago. Now...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2021

FERNEYHOUGH Complete Piano Music 1965-2018 (Ian Pace)

In his thought-provoking booklet essay, Ian Pace considers the notational complexity of Brian Ferneyhough’s scores as being less a directive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

VAN EYCK Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (François Lazarevitch)

Jacob van Eyck’s two volumes of Der Fluyten Lust-hof (1640s) apparently count as the largest-ever collection of music for a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021

Michael Dussek: Romantic Revolution

Michael Dussek can’t be sure whether he’s descended from the 18th-/19th-century Bohemian composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812). Nevertheless, the nominative...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2021

DURUFLÉ Complete organ works (Thomas Trotter)

With the 2016 rebuild of the King’s College chapel organ, celebrated on a magnificent recent DVD release from Fugue State...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2021

BRUCH Piano Works (Christof Keymer)

Max Bruch’s music has been popular with string players for the past century and a half but his is not...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2021

BINGHAM Heaven and Earth (Tom Winpenny)

A decade has elapsed since Naxos issued the first CD of Tom Winpenny performing organ music by Judith Bingham. In...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2021

The Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs of Thomas de Hartmann (Elan Sicroff)

Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956) was one of musical history’s ‘nearly men’. As Elan Sicroff – the pianist in all three...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021

Stolen Pearls (Oyster Duo)

Solo practitioners have increased markedly over recent decades but the double bass remains limited as to repertoire. All the more...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

La La Hö Hö: Sixteenth-century works for Viol Consort

Recitals focusing on Renaissance viol consorts are pretty thin on the ground. (One thinks back to a series of recordings...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2021

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