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Playing Ravel

The year 1875 marked the births of numerous cultural icons, not least Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Carl Jung, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2025

HICKEY Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Vladimir Rumyantsev)

Composer, record label executive, travelogue: Sean Hickey (b1970) enjoys a varied career. Some may have encountered A Pacifying Weapon for...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2025

Organ Reflections: Mozart, Franck, Reger (Ariel Lanyi)

The title of Ariel Lanyi’s latest recording, ‘Organ Reflections’, may be misleading: instead of offering organ music, it features works...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2025

Justin Taylor: Chopin intime

For this (mostly) all-Chopin recital, Justin Taylor plays on a Pleyel upright pianino dating from 1839. Despite the instrument’s muted...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2025

JS BACH 6 English Suites (Francesco Tristano)

Francesco Tristano’s second instalment of Bach keyboard works – he plans to record them all – shows a subtly different...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2025

JS BACH Cello Suites (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)

Principal of the Royal Academy of Music (and Gramophone reviewer) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood is not the first person to record Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2025

Laurence Perkins: Honey-Coloured Cow

The title is taken from a good-natured composition by Ruth Gipps, which illustrates the familiar, jokey side of the bassoon,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 07/2025

Zlatomir Fung: Fantasies

Zlatomir Fung was just 20 years old when he won first prize at the 2019 Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition, becoming...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2025

TELEMANN Chamber Music With Recorder (Erik Bosgraaf)

If ever a label looked like it could be tempted to record the complete works of Telemann, Brilliant Classics might...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2025

Shostakovich Discoveries

Shostakovich discoveries have been emerging for almost as long as I can remember – from incomplete operas and neglected theatre...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2025

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