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BRUCKNER Mass in E minor (Cleobury; Herreweghe)

Soon after welcoming the Pentatone release of Bruckner’s E minor Mass conducted by Gijs Leenaars (A/20), here are two more...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020

BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols. Saint Nicolas

Conceived on board the MS Axel Johnson during Britten’s hazardous return voyage from North America to the UK in 1942,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Lieder (Elīna Garanča)

DG’s publicity blurb for this album describes it as ‘both a debut and a proof of musical pedigree’. It’s the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas. Diabelli Variations (Daniel Barenboim)

Most of us seem to have spent much of lockdown earlier this year failing to get anywhere with optimistic to-do...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020

Khatia Buniatishvili: Labyrinth

Khatia Buniatishvili is a pianist of extremes. She has fantastic fingers, a charismatic stage presence, a warm, glowing tone and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

THALBERG L'Art du Chant (Paul Wee)

L’art du chant appliqué au piano consists of 26 numbers published in four volumes between 1853 and 1863, each containing...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

SCHUMANN Piano Works 'Einsam' (Nino Gvetadze)

Now based in Amsterdam, Nino Gvetadze was born in Tbilisi and trained in her native Georgia before continuing her studies...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

LISZT Schwanengesang. Valses oubliées ( Can Çakmur)

This is Can Çakmur’s second album for BIS. The 23-year-old Turkish pianist’s first, which included works by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, Haydn,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

KODÁLY; LIGETI Sonatas for Solo Cello (Gabriel Schwabe)

I feel sure that Gabriel Schwabe has the chops and musical intellect to give a great performance of Kodály’s Solo...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020

DYSON "The Open Window" Complete music for piano (Simon Callaghan)

The past quarter of a century has brought steady reappraisal of George Dyson (1883-1964), and while an extensive choral output...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020

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