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WEISS; HASSE Flute Sonatas (Jadran Duncumb)

If you didn’t know that Hasse wrote music for the lute, don’t be hard on yourself. I didn’t either; but...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

GODOWSKY Piano works and transcriptions (Kwiatkowski)

Thirty years ago, when only a handful of Godowsky’s compositions (originals and arrangements) were available or recorded, one would have...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2018

Kevin Kenner: Late Chopin Works

When it comes to Schubert and Chopin, who died in their thirties, the concept of ‘late works’ is somewhat curious....

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018

BUSONI Elegien. An die Jugend (Carlo Grante)

The nicely chosen image on the front cover shows a nude, elderly woman, depicted from the back, gazing as if...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018

BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus. Eroica Variations (Howard)

Contrary to the blurb on the back of the CD, Leslie Howard is not the first to record Beethoven’s The...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018

JS BACH Solo Cello Suite No 1 (Dunford)

The Paris-born lutenist Thomas Dunford is known for his sensitive, imaginative continuo work in ensembles such as Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2018

Gulda: The Mono Tapes

Eighteen years after his death at the age of 69, Friedrich Gulda remains something of an iconoclast. Following his victory...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018

JS BACH Solo Violin Partitas BWV1004-1006 (Bohren)

This is not ‘period’ solo Bach – the lingering lick of vibrato on the last note of the disc’s opening...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

The Lily & the Rose

English visitors to the Musée Cluny in Paris can be surprised to see its massive collection of Nottingham alabaster from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2018

The House of the Mind

Forthright sits well on the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford. There’s an ingenuous freedom to their tone, sometimes almost...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2018

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