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FRANCK The Organ Works (Ben van Oosten)

When most recorded versions of Franck’s organ music cover two discs, we might question why Ben van Oosten takes four....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018

Bertrand Cuiller: Couperin l’Alchimiste

With this two-disc set, Bertrand Cuiller launches a new complete cycle of the solo harpsichord works of François Couperin that...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2019

BRAHMS Late Piano Works (Garrick Ohlsson)

Garrick Ohlsson begins his new disc of late Brahms with the mighty Op 116 pieces, and in a sense his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 32 LISZT Années de pèlerinage No 1

This recording combines two live performances by Till Fellner: the Swiss Année in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

JS BACH Italian Concerto (Federico Colli)

My last encounter with Federico Colli was a slightly frustrating one, with his readings of Scarlatti at times seeming overly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2019

HANDEL Italian Cantatas

The Arcadia evoked in Handel’s Italian cantatas can be a pretty cruel and cynical place, especially if you’re an amorous...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018

Vienna: Fin de Siècle (Barbara Hannigan)

After a well-received album of Satie for the French composer’s anniversary, Barbara Hannigan and Reinbert de Leeuw (having transitioned from...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018

Sing Levy Dew

In the decade since its foundation, in 2008, the Girls’ Choir of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, have garnered well-deserved plaudits...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2018

Pater peccavi: Music of Lamentation from Renaissance Portugal

This exquisite late Renaissance Portuguese polyphonic repertoire is as richly expressive as it is politically poised. Written under the rule...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2018

Les Maîtres du Motet Français

A collection of French Baroque music without so much as a fan flutter of courtly secularity or a mouthful of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2018

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