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COUPERIN Trois Leçons de Ténèbres BROSSARD Stabat Mater

La Nuova Musica, anticipating the 2017 Lenten season, have coupled lamentations by two turn-of-the-century (17th to 18th) French composers –...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2016

BARTÓK Choral Works Vol 1

For starters, try Est (‘Evening’, tr 27), a setting of a poem about the dying moon, where night has come,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2016

JS BACH Secular Cantatas VII

Late Bach always presents fascinating insights into how the composer distils his craft, leaning towards galant sensibilities without compromising his...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2016

Songs and Lullabies - New Works for Solo Cello

Like all the best ideas, this one is simple. To draw attention to the world’s mistreated children, Robert Irvine asked...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

Emil Gilels: The Seattle Recital

During the course of 28 years beginning in 1955, the great Soviet pianist Emil Gilels toured North America 12 times....

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2016

Lucas Debargue plays Bach, Beethoven and Medtner

The French pianist Lucas Debargue was snapped up by Sony after the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition. Not because he won it,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2016

TELEMANN 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin

Telemann’s solo violin music is never likely to challenge Bach’s for popularity – not these days, anyway. Back in his...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2016

MOMPOU Fêtes lointaines

It’s interesting how certain pianists known for advocating thorny large-scale 20th-century works also champion the exquisitely wrought tonality of Mompou’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2016

HAYDN Piano Sonatas - Einav Yarden

What an enterprising programme from the Israeli pianist Einav Yarden. She eschews the obvious, choosing six of Haydn’s middle-period sonatas...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2016

GODOWSKY The Art of Transcription

If you have never sampled any Godowsky – or even if you are a Godowskyphobe (I’ve encountered a few over...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

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