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AMMANN; BARTOK; RAVEL Piano Concertos (Andreas Haefliger)

To title a piece The Piano Concerto with the definite article up front may seem a tad self-aggrandising. Yet Dieter...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020

HAMMERSCHMIDT 'Ach Jesus stirbt'

Compared with the famous triumvirate of his contemporaries, Schütz, Schein and Scheidt (or even Michael Praetorius), Andreas Hammerschmidt (c1611-1675) is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2020

Isabelle Demers: The Chicago Recital

Isabelle Demers is a Quebec-born organist who revels in the music she plays and the sounds she can produce by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020

HERMANN Whitman. Psycho

Like many successful Hollywood composers, Bernard Herrmann pursued musical endeavours beyond (in his time) the celluloid. Studies at Juilliard were...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020

FUCHS Point of Tranquility

Let me say right from the outset that this disc is as engaging, well performed and brightly recorded a programme...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020

JS BACH Soli Dei Gloria: Transcriptions for Trumpet and Organ

Inspired by Pablo Casals’s belief in playing Bach every day, and the conviction that Bach aspired to a sense of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2020

VIVALDI Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) RV 703 (Dantone)

Vivaldi’s pasticcio was commissioned by Verona’s Accademia Filarmonico for their recently built theatre during the 1734-35 Carnival. The manuscript score...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020

ROSSINI Moïse et Pharaon (Carminati)

This latest release from the annual Rossini festival in Wildbad in southern Germany is one of its more successful, and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2020

MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro (Bolton)

Updating Figaro is always likely to minimise the class tensions that underlie this most humane and (potentially) poignant of musical...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020

LEHÁR Cloclo (Burkert)

We already know Mlle Cloclo – or do we? Along with Lolo, Margot, Froufrou and the rest, isn’t she one...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020

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