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HAYDN Seven Last Words of Christ of the Cross (Stavy)

The fact that the keyboard version of The Seven Last Words has come down to us in an arrangement not...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019

FRANCK Organ Works (Patrick; Challenger)

Two Englishmen playing César Franck on two English cathedral organs. You would have thought they would have much in common,...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2019

BUSONI Piano Music Vol 11 (Harden)

Busoni’s music can on occasion remind me of that quip by Eduard Hanslick when he encountered Brahms’s Fourth Symphony for...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Keith Jarrett)

This previously unreleased live performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 took place in March 1987, just one month after...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH Toccatas (Esfahani)

The element most characteristic of the toccata – from the earliest lute and keyboard pieces in 16th-century Italy to more...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH Lute Suites (Franz Halász)

Franz Halász does something interesting here. Well, of course he does – you’ve heard his Henze, Berio and Takemitsu …...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2019

Vivi Vassileva: Singin' Rhythm

‘Singin’ Rhythm’ finds multi-percussionist Vivi Vassileva pursuing all directions at once, from marimba soloist to bandleader, in a cross-section of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

Palimpsest

Clarinet and marimba make an odd couple. Their timbres are almost diametric opposites – one warm and creamy, the other...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019

Folk Tales: British Cello and Piano Miniatures

At the heart of this recording of British post-Romantic cello miniatures is an exploration of music from that wonderfully fertile...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2019

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Mi-Sa Yang)

Mi-Sa Yang and Jonas Vitaud have hopped over Mozart’s childhood piano and violin sonatas and gone straight for the gold...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019

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