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BERLIOZ Requiem (Nelson)

We’re immediately back on the old concert Requiem dilemma of devotion or drama. Leading candidates on disc from the past...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2019

JS BACH Keyboard Works (Scott Ross)

‘Mixture of rascally thug and dandy’ is how one reminiscence describes Scott Ross, and when one hears stories of his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2019

Hermine Forray: Lumiere & Mediterannee

The blurb on the back cover claims that the present recording comes across ‘like a live recital’. Perhaps this has...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

THALBERG Fantasies on French Operas (Mark Viner)

Things didn’t begin too promisingly: I spent the first track pondering the genius of Liszt’s transcriptions. Which was unfortunate, given...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2019

SKALKOTTAS From Berlin to Athens (Lorenda Ramou)

Eighty-eight minutes? Well, 87'43" of intelligently programmed piano music by Skalkottas, including three world premieres, complementing BIS’s previous groundbreaking releases...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

SCHUMANN Works for Piano (Joseph Tong)

Purely in terms of selections and running order, Joseph Tong’s all-Schumann disc represents an ideal, well-balanced programme that judiciously represents...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

C SCHUMANN Piano Works(De Beenhouwer. Witoschynskij)

These two CDs focus on an area of Clara Schumann’s output which is every bit as interesting (some would say...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2019

KAPSBERGER Intavolatura di chitarone (Jonas Nordberg)

In his Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni (1650), that wildly imaginative polymath Athanasius Kircher all but proclaims...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019

Bella incognita: The imagination of Marco dall'Aquila (Henning)

Suggestion trumps explicitness. Think Fragonard’s L’escarpolette or Herrick’s ‘A sweet disorder in the dress / Kindles in clothes a wantonness’....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019

CZERNY Piano Works (Zhao. Lessing)

The ‘invention’ of the solo recital is generally credited to Liszt on the basis of his 1839 letter, written from...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

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