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Passage secret: Bizet, Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Aubert
Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle are a formidably well-equipped duo whose acquaintance I first made back in 2017 with their...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
From Handel’s Home: The Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House (Julian Perkins)
When the Handel (now Handel Hendrix) House opened in 2001, it could make use of only the top floors of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Sergey Khachatryan)
The brilliant Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan treats us to yet another superb set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, vibrant, forceful,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2024
WAGNER 'Famous Opera Scenes' (Nikolai Lugansky)
Listen to Josef Hofmann’s 1923 recording of Louis Brassin’s transcription of Wagner’s Magic Fire Music and you’ll hear one of...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
SORABJI Toccata Terza (Abel Sánchez-Aguilera)
Composed in 1955, the manuscript of Sorabji’s two-hour-plus Toccata terza had been missing for decades when it was rediscovered in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
ROSEINGRAVE 8 Harpsichord Suites (Bridget Cunningham)
Young Thomas Roseingrave, descended from a family of musicians in Ireland and England, visited Venice in the early 18th century...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2024
RAVEL Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol 1 (Vincent Larderet)
Here is the first of four planned discs devoted to Ravel’s piano works that promises to be painstakingly comprehensive, with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
RACHMANINOV Piano Duos (Babayan; Trifonov)
This album of Rachmaninov’s two-piano music offers a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness. Add to...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2024
Debussy and Ravel for Two
A quick glance at the repertoire above and it seems to be a nice programme of well-known piano pieces by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
CHOPIN Variations in B-Flat Major. Sonata in B-Flat Minor (Aleksandra Swigut)
Keeping track of the Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina’s ‘The Real Chopin’ period-instrument releases can be daunting, given the sheer volume...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Franz Halász)
Fans of German guitarist Franz Halász’s take on Bach’s so-called Lute Suites (9/19) and his earlier recording of the three...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Die Kunst der Fuge (Masaaki Suzuki)
Only weeks after, in reviewing Christophe Rousset’s recent Art of Fugue (Aparté, 1/24), I was saying how recordings of it...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Trio Lirico: Treasures
Two difficult rarities anchor this release. Most challenging is the first recording of Peter Eötvös’s 2020 Trio, written as a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Daniel Hope: Dance!
We learn from Andrew Stewart’s first-rate booklet that Daniel Hope wanted to make a dance album 20 years ago. Concept...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
TARTINI Violin Sontatas (Adrian Chandler)
Well, what a treat this is. I can’t be the only one who finds themselves, whenever a fresh concerto recording...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
Suite Italienne: Vivaldi, Sollima, Stravinsky
The vitality of sound captured here by Linn is possibly the most attractive aspect of this album. It perfectly suits...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024
SHOSTAKOVICH Complete String Quartets (Quatuor Danel)
The Shostakovich quartets have moved from the periphery to the centre of the repertoire without too much in the way...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
From the Beginning: Music for Winds and Piano by Mozart, Thuille and Poulenc
As the booklet note confirms, this recording is ‘a celebration of 30 years of music-making’ between the splendid Galliard Ensemble...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 3 (Trio Gaspard)
Trio Gaspard return with a third selection from across Haydn’s output of piano trios. The C major and E minor...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
HANDEL Complete Violin Sonatas (Bojan Čičić)
It’s beginning to feel a bit like buses with Bojan Čičić: you spend ages thinking how enjoyable it would be...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
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