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BIZET Complete Songs

Hot on the heels of Palazzetto Bru Zane’s four-disc release of Georges Bizet rarities to mark the 150th anniversary of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025

BEACH The Canticle Of The Sun WEIR In The Land Of Uz

Musical treatments of the book of Job are quite diverse, from Lassus’s motet cycle to Vaughan Williams’s ‘masque for dancing’,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2025

Hallelujah Junction: Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bernstein

This is a timely antidote to all the US-related anxieties shaping our daily lives: an album equivalent to sunshine in...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2025

Julia Hamos: Ellis Island

For her first solo piano release, Julia Hamos puts together a musically fresh and intelligently curated programme reflecting her Hungarian...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2025

VILLA-LOBOS Complete Works for Solo Guitar (Franz Halasz)

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos played both guitar and cello, so it’s not surprising that a taste for colouristic exuberance and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2025

STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps RAVEL Ma mère l'Oye

The piano duet version of The Rite originally functioned as a rehearsal tool. But just as Stravinsky rightly claimed that...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes and Fugues (Yulianna Avdeeva)

No pianist in their right mind embarks on the complete Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues without mastery of the art of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2025

SCHARWENKA 'The Nocturnal Poet' (Cansu Sanlidag)

A small but representative amount of music by (Ludwig) Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917) has been recorded over the years, almost all...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2025

SATIE Surprises (Christina Bjørkøe)

Is it me, or has the centenary year marking Erik Satie’s death been rather muted so far? Recent releases have...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2025

SAARIAHO Touches - Complete Works for Piano and Harpischord (Tuija Hakkila)

For progressively minded composers born in the mid-20th century, the piano’s inheritance from the harpsichord – an inability to sustain...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2025

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