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MOZART 'Exsultate, Jubilate!'
‘Exsultate jubilate!’ was also the title of a recording by Carolyn Sampson in 2006. Her disc, an Editor’s Choice that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
HANDEL Un'alma Innamorata (Francesca Aspromonte)
Two well-known cantatas composed in Italy and another devised about a decade later in England are interspersed with the Trio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
GILLES Messe des morts
Like the better-known André Campra, Jean Gilles (1668-1705) was a native of Provence. But unlike his older contemporary, Gilles never...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
DELIUS Mass of Life (Elder)
Preceded by a pair of highly acclaimed concert performances in Bergen’s Grieg Hall, Mark Elder’s new traversal of Delius’s A...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024
BRITTEN Te Deum. A Ceremony of Carols. A Hymn to St Cecilia
Devised during Britten’s perilous ocean voyage back to the UK from North America in 1942, A Ceremony of Carols comprises...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024
BARTÓK Cantata Profana & Transylvanian Dances KODÁLY Te Deum & Psalmus Hungaricus
Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus (1923) and Bartók’s Cantata profana (1930) have appeared together on disc twice before, I believe – by...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Geistliche Lieder (Klaus Mertens)
This sympathetic collection brings together songs with devotional texts, some of which derive from Bach with certainty (included in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
Forget This Night
The centrepiece here is Lili Boulanger’s emotionally turbulent 13-song cycle Clairières dans le ciel (‘Clearings in the sky’, 1914) on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
Le clavecin à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Jos van Immerseel)
For most readers, Jos van Immerseel will be associated primarily with historical pianos, on which he has over the years...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024
Thomas Trotter: A Celebration
There have been only seven Birmingham City Organists since the post was created in 1834, and just four in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Moments musicaux (Adam Laloum)
Listen to Adam Laloum caress the gentle return of the main theme at the end of the A major Sonata’s...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Inon Barnatan: Rachmaninov Reflections
Five years ago, Ward Marston released substantial fragments from a demonstration of the Symphonic Dances given by Rachmaninov to help...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Sonya Bach: Mussorgsky
Sonya Bach studied with both Alicia de Larrocha and Lazar Berman, so it’s no surprise that in her hands A...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
BRAHMS 'The Muse' (Nino Gvetadze)
Patrick Rucker thought very highly of Nino Gvetadze’s Schumann recording on this label (12/20), so I was intrigued to hear...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
BONIS Complete Music for Solo Piano Vol 1 (Mengyiyi Chen)
This release is billed as Vol 1 of the complete music for solo piano of Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 6 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)
In many ways, Xaver Scharwenka’s piano duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies stand out from numerous others by such 19th-century ‘in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Shai Wosner)
Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
A Beethoven Odyssey Vol 8 (James Brawn)
James Brawn’s traversal of Beethoven’s piano sonatas has reached its eighth instalment, with a selection of sonatas composed between 1800...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Der Kunst der Fuge (Christophe Rousset)
It’s a strange fact that, although it is generally accepted that Bach intended The Art of Fugue for harpsichord, recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024
Bruce Liu: Waves
After his utterly exceptional disc of Chopin, recorded live during the course of the 2021 International Chopin Competition (12/21), Canadian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
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