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JS BACH Magnificat (Tournet)

Inspired by the splendour of the Royal Chapel at Versailles, the Château Spectacles series of concerts and recordings adds the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2020

JS BACH St John Passion (Herreweghe)

Over the years Philippe Herreweghe has moved freely between the first and second of Bach’s St John Passion scores, composed...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas (Fazil Say)

In the booklet notes accompanying Fazıl Say’s Beethoven sonata cycle, the pianist writes: ‘As I work I make annotations above...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

Mit Humor (Matthieu Cognet)

A personal note: I first learnt about the New York-based French pianist Matthieu Cognet through our mutual pianist friend Fanny...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

Italian Inspirations (Alessio Bax)

The mesmerising Adagio of the Marcello-Bach Concerto was memorably recorded by Edwin Fischer in 1931. You rarely hear all three...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020

#Cellounlimited (Daniel Müller-Schott)

Daniel Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

Rachel Mahon: Canadian Organ Music

It is difficult to imagine a more impressive location for these four substantial organ works by Canadian composers of the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21 (Dina Ugorskaja)

I doubt if the teacher who once banned the 23-year-old me from playing Schubert’s last piano sonata because she thought...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2020

HUNDSNES Clavinatas Nos 1-7. Piano Sonata No 1 (Laura Mikkola)

The Norwegian Svein Hundsnes (b1951) has composed three symphonies, concertos, two string quartets and several other works, but until now...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Works for Piano Four Hands (Peter Hill & Benjamin Frith)

In an absorbing booklet essay, Peter Hill encourages us to take seriously Beethoven’s modest output for piano duet as a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020

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