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JOSQUIN Motets & Mass movements

Because of his ‘top-dog’ status among early Renaissance composers, questions of attribution loom particularly large in Josquin research. The issue...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2021

GOSSEC La Nativité

François-Joseph Gossec’s Messe des morts of 1760 was one of his first breakthrough works. With its rich orchestration, it soon...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021

EAST Music for Viols and Voices

The overall sound made by the Fieri Consort and Chelys Consort of Viols is bliss. The viols glisten with the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021

CONNER Riddle Songs

With Riddle Songs, Stef Connor has composed an album of songs setting Old English texts. Since no music survives from...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2021

The Complete Josef Lhevinne

It is a tragedy that Josef Lhevinne, indisputably one of the greatest pianists of the last century, recorded so little....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021

Ksenija Sidorova: Piazzolla Reflections

The sound of the bandoneón – penetrating, plaintive and pulsating with emotion – is the sound of the Argentine tango...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021

RZEWSKI Songs of Insurrection (Thomas Kotcheff)

A personal note: I heard bits and pieces of Frederic Rzewski’s Songs of Insurrection in progress while the composer was...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

PAGANINI Caprices (Ning Feng)

For me the litmus test with any recording of Paganini’s mighty ‘24’ is the ‘Trill’ Caprice (No 6), where a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2021

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Papillons. Etudes symphoniques (Andrei Gavrilov)

A pianist colleague likened the young Andrei Gavrilov’s fire-eating virtuosity to a state-of-the-art BMW without the driver. It’s true that...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

Benjamin Grosvenor: Liszt

An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

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