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DEBUSSY Préludes, Book 2. La Mer (Melnikov)

Érard pianos from either side of 1900 seem to have survived the ageing process rather well, at least to the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2018

Nelson Goerner plays Debussy

This disc was originally released on Zig Zag Territoires, and it has been a great pleasure returning to it, thanks...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2018

JS BACH The Complete Organ Works, Vol 7

David Goode has now reached Vol 7 in his series of Bach’s complete organ works, recorded once again on the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2018

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Ares)

There’s a surprise for anyone who puts on this recording without looking at the booklet first: its opening notes are...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018

Songs of Orpheus

To build a programme of 17th-century music for tenor and ensemble around the myth of Orpheus and not include ‘Possente...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

Light Divine

This juxtaposition of Handel and Rameau is an interesting proposition because the soloist is the boy treble Askel Rykkvin (whose...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018

In Sorrow’s Footsteps

The opening chords of Gabriel Jackson’s Stabat mater, their dissonant points hammered like nails into the ear, make for an...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

The Gluepot Connection

‘That bloody Gluepot’ was how an infuriated Sir Henry Wood described The George, a bustling public house just round the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018

A Certain Slant of Light

As this collection and its accompanying notes remind us, the music came first and the poetry followed for Emily Dickinson....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018

VIVANCO Missa Assumpsit Jesus

Sebastián Vivanco (d1622) was a slightly younger contemporary of Victoria and one of the last exponents of Spain’s Golden Age....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2018

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