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HOLLIGER Machaut Transcriptions

This is the first of two recordings in this issue in which a living composer dialogues with Machaut, the first...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2016

FELDMAN Rothko Chapel

In all my years of reviewing Feldman performances, I’ve never heard one so catastrophically misconceived as Robert Simpson’s jazz-hands misreading...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016

Véronique Gens: Néère

Véronique Gens’s new album is an important issue on several fronts. First and foremost, it is arguably the most...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2016

BERG Violin Concerto

No explanation is offered in the booklet for the belated release of these recordings from the early 1990s and perhaps...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016

CHARPENTIER; BOYVIN Motets pour une princesse

The title of this disc is ‘Motets pour une princesse’. The lady in question was Marie de Lorraine, the Duchesse...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2016

DEBUSSY Fantaisie FAURÉ Ballade RAVEL Piano Concerto

For her third Somm recording, Valerie Tryon turns to France, doubtless recalling her early studies in Paris with Jacques Février....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2016

MOZART Double Concertos

Mozart’s Concerto for three pianos, K242, was composed in 1776 for the Countess Lodron and her two daughters, and later...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2016

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto. Introduction and Allegro

Having recorded the Chopin Etudes aged just 18 (10/13), what could be more natural than the Schumann Concerto at 20?...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016

Angel, Devil, Priest

When it comes to Baroque violin concertos, Vivaldi’s tend to get the lion’s share of the limelight in comparison to...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016

WEIGL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Violin Concerto

This was my first encounter with the music of Karl Weigl (1881-1949). I fear it may also be my last....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016

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