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PETRIDIS Requiem For the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos. Symphony No 3. Concerto Grosso
This may sound impossibly recondite, but I have been waiting a decade for a recording of this work to appear....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2022
PATERSON Say It To The Still World
‘A piece for electric guitar and choir’ sounds a little like one of those random combinations one might pick out...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2022
MARCELLO 'Amanti - Cantatas for Bass' (Sergio Foresti)
You can always rely on the veteran Italian baritone Sergio Foresti for interesting Baroque repertoire. And following hot on the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2022
JOSQUIN 'The Josquin Songbook - Music For Two Voices and Vihuela'
This is decidedly the oddest contribution to the Josquin year. The three performers here are beyond praise: María Cristina Kiehr...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2022
HAYDN The Creation (Savall)
Haydn conceived The Creation on the grandest possible scale, as evidenced by the 200-odd performers in the 1799 public premiere....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
DEBUSSY; HAHN 'French Vocal Music'
This appealing album of fin de siècle works – mostly for solo voice and chorus – by Claude Debussy and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
CHILCOTT Circlesong
Circlesong is an extended cantata for upper voices, mixed choir, two pianos and percussion, and is a revision dating from...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2022
JS BACH Cantatas Nos 35 & 169 (Iestyn Davies)
The emotional core of this album is Dieterich Buxtehude’s Klag-Lied. It’s a sublime performance from Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen, in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
ALBÉNIZ Complete Songs (Adriana Gonzalez)
Momentousness seems prevalent at every turn: the perceptive, passionate notes, the lavish, 112-page booklet and the general dignity of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2022
Wilhelm Kempff: The Complete Polydor Recordings (1927-1936)
The latest in APR’s valuable series of Wilhelm Kempff reissues brings together all of his non-Beethoven electrical Polydor 78s. Some...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
MENDELSSOHN Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol 6 (Howard Shelley)
With this sixth volume we reach the end of Howard Shelley’s journey through Mendelssohn’s solo piano music. And what a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words Vol 1 (Peter Donohoe)
Today it is difficult to imagine the ‘market saturation’ enjoyed by Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in the 19th century, an...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Piano (Nikolay Medvedev)
This is my first encounter with Nikolay Medvedev, a Russian pianist born in 1986, a graduate of the Gnessin Russian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
LISZT 'Death and Transfiguration' (Kenneth Hamilton)
You can think of this impressive release as a two-disc illustration of its title or simply as a pair of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
LANGGAARD; SCRIABIN 'Towards the Flame - Eccentric Piano Works' (Gustav Piekut)
Gustav Piekut doubtless raised eyebrows through making his recorded debut with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Danacord, 2019), and a similarly questing...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
BUXTEHUDE Organ Works, Vol 2 (Friedhelm Flamme)
With Bach, approaches to interpretation may be many and varied but there is some kind of established yardstick for such...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2022
BRAHMS Late Piano Pieces (Paul Lewis)
If a single word were to describe what pianists played in public during the 19th century, it might be ‘variety’....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Opp 106 & 111 (Angela Hewitt)
Now that Angela Hewitt has concluded her Beethoven sonata cycle with two of its ‘biggest guns’, it appears that she...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
JS BACH 'Bach on the Rauwolf Lute' (Jakob Lindberg)
With time, a musical work takes on the character of a character. It’s played by players who, often aided by...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2022
CPE BACH Sonatas & Rondos (Marc-André Hamelin)
Certain performers seem to find a Being John Malkovich-like secret portal to the brain of every composer they play. Marc-André...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022
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