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Olivier Latry: Bach To The Future

Ah, this is more like it! Bach played with no hang-ups, using the full resources of a magnificent organ (the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2019

REICH 'Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton’

With performances by Steve Reich and Musicians – Reich’s own group – becoming a far less regular occurrence these days,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2019

BEETHOVEN 5 Cello Sonatas (Leonard Elschenbroich)

There’s little in Beethoven’s output that’s undervalued but I have the sense that the cello sonatas don’t quite get the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

Iestyn Davies: If

Last year the American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo gave us a recital pairing music by Philip Glass and Handel (Decca)....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2019

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 2 (Bezuidenhout)

Among a flurry of Mendelssohn piano concerto recordings in recent months, the direct competitor to this new one will be...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

BRITTEN; PURCELL String Quartets (Doric Quartet)

The Doric Quartet’s beautiful Britten cycle was recorded in tandem with a series of concerts, greatly admired, in Snape Maltings...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 109-111 (Steven Osborne)

I was much looking forward to getting my hands on this CD, having chosen Steven Osborne’s previous Beethoven sonata disc,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2019

Songs and Vexations

In his booklet note Andrew Matthews-Owen explains the long gestation of this programme. But you can already get a sense...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019

Stéphanie d'Oustrac: Sirènes

This is a paradoxical disc in some ways. Given Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s track record in her native French repertory, most people,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

Poèmes d'un Jour (Stéphane Degout)

For his previous solo albums, Stéphane Degout has always confined himself to the French repertory, of which he remains a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

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