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MOČNIK Pasijon Po Janezu (St John Passion)
Damijan Močnik’s music has not so far been familiar to me, but he is a very active figure in the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
HANDEL Solomon (Alarcón)
Leonardo García Alarcón uses the recent HHA edition (2014) of Solomon, although departs surreptitiously from Handel’s orchestration several times. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2023
GÓRECKI Beatus Vir. Concerto-Cantata. Canticum Graduum
Beatus vir is classic second-period Górecki, written three years after the notorious Symphony No 3, in 1979, and receiving its...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
DASER Polyphonic Masses
Poor Ludwig Daser (c1525-1589). If you’ve heard anything about him it was probably that he once retired as Kapellmeister to...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2023
BERLIOZ Romeo & Juliette. La Mort de Cleopatre (Nelson)
The descriptor symphonie dramatique for Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette is a bit of a misnomer; it’s neither a symphony nor...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2023
Barnaby Smith: Bach
No falsettist worth his salt can resist these two sublime cantatas, saturated with echt-Lutheran life-weariness and death-longing. Barnaby Smith, best...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2023
JS BACH Trinitatis: Cantatas
These three cantatas have long been in the canon as celebrated examples of Bach in the first flush of Leipzig...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2023
Sarah Beth Briggs: Variations
Richard Goode once witnessed a pianist auditioning for Rudolf Serkin with Mozart’s Duport Variations. After it was over, Serkin said:...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
Jean Rondeau: Gradus ad Parnassum
Debussy, one suspects, would not have touched a harpsichord with a bargepole. Yet here is ‘Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum’, his...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2023
Matthew Barley: Electric
Profiling cellist Matthew Barley a few years ago (6/19), Charlotte Gardner aptly called his multi-genre output a ‘fizzing cornucopia’. His...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023
Avec Esprit: Gouvy, Mélan-Guéroult, Saint-Saens, Ysaye
Before I begin, I must declare an interest: I am a fully paid-up member of the Tal & Groethuysen fan...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
RUBINSTEIN Preludes and Études (Martin Cousin)
‘Like many fecund composers,’ wrote Albert Lockwood in 1940, ‘[Anton Rubinstein] offers two kinds of failures. First, the pieces which...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
MOZART; BIZET Don Giovanni (Cyprien Katsaris)
Hands up! Who knew that Georges Bizet had made a piano solo arrangement of Mozart’s Don Giovanni? Thought so. My...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
MENDELSSOHN Songs without Words, Vol 2 (Jacopo Salvatori)
Pianists who record Mendelssohn’s complete Songs without Words usually present them in order by opus number. For his second and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
MATTHEW-WALKER A Bad Night in Los Angeles
Well known as author, publisher and one-time A&R representative, Robert Matthew-Walker (b1939) has also amassed a sizeable output. A 2016...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023
Seong-Jin Cho: The Handel Project
Seong-Jin Cho’s latest project shows all the consideration and respect for the music that we’ve come to expect from this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
HADJIDAKIS Paper Moon (Elena Papandreou)
This is a beautiful collection of guitar arrangements of songs by Manos Hadjidakis, one of Greece’s most famous tragoudistes. The...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
CHOPIN; FAURÉ Impromptus (Ismaël Margain)
I was excited to hear this programme, not least because the Fauré Impromptus get out far less often than they...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
CHASINS Complete Music For Piano Solo (Margarita Glebov)
Leopold Godowsky once bumped into the young Abram Chasins. ‘Is it true’, he asked, ‘that your Rush Hour in Hong...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Variations, Vol 1 (Cédric Tiberghien)
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023
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