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BONDS Credo. Simon Bore the Cross
Margaret Bonds (1913 72) studied with Florence Price at high school (she also had tuition later from Roy Harris and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Motets of the Bach Family (Ensemble Polyharmonique. Tölzer Knabenchor)
Bach drafted an annotated genealogy of his extensive musical family in about 1735 and he had a collection of mostly...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023
Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers (Rosalind Ventris)
Recent releases such as song-cycles by Robert Hugill (Navona, 1/18) or the Celtic-inspired miscellany ‘Between Earth and Sea’ (Tyˆ Cerdd)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
Anthony Romaniuk: Perpetuum
Anthony Romaniuk follows up his brilliant ‘Bells’ (11/20) with ‘Perpetuum’, another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
Chopin's Epoque: Piano Works By Gutmann, Filtsch, Mikuli, Fontan, Rothschild & Tellefsen
So all-embracing was Chopin’s influence on piano composition that few composers writing in the idiom (rather than that of Schumann,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
Hopkinson Smith: Bright & Early
If anything, ‘late style’ is more about a renewed sense of freedom, of expanded possibilities, of a more capacious creativity,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2023
Romeo & Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano (Yevgeny Sudbin)
It must have been quite a headache for BIS to come up with a title for Yevgeny Sudbin’s latest album....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2023
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D537; 959 (Garrick Ohlsson)
This is quite an inspired pairing, even if it risks giving you the mother of all earworms after hearing one...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2023
MOZART Piano Sonatas, Volume 6 (Peter Donohoe)
Peter Donohoe launched his Mozartian labour of love a little over four years ago (4/19) and completes it with a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
LITOLFF Piano Music, Vol 1 (Tingyue Jiang)
Very little of Litolff’s music has appeared on record – surprising for a pianist-composer who in his day (1818 91)...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
JONGEN 13 Preludes. 24 Petits Preludes Dans Tous Les Tons (Ivan Ilić)
Most people, I suppose, associate the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) with organ music, most notably his wonderful Sinfonia concertante...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
FRESCOBALDI Fiori Musicali (Richard Lester)
I read in three reference sources – none written in the last 40 years – that Fiori musicali (‘Musical Flowers’)...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2023
Rafał Blechacz: Chopin
Given his extraordinary gifts, the Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz (now 37 years old) manages to keep an extraordinarily low profile....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
BRUCKNER The Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions), Vol 5 (Hansjörg Albrecht)
By 2024 Hansjörg Albrecht plans to have finished recording the first complete set of Bruckner’s 10 symphonies in organ arrangements,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2023
Benjamin Grosvenor: Schumann & Brahms
In her excellent booklet notes, Katy Hamilton quotes Clara Wieck (still Robert Schumann’s fiancée) on Kreisleriana: ‘Sometimes your music actually...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2023
BOWEN; MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Works for two pianos (Moog, Adomeit)
Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are so well matched that you can hardly tell the pianists apart. In the opening...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
Mirrored in Time
This is an intelligently planned, finely played album for trombone and string quartet, part recital of contemporary music, part hypothesis...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Berlioz's Lost Oboe: Early French Romantic Music For Oboe and Piano
A century before Rodrigo immortalised the palace of Aranjuez in his guitar Concierto (1939), oboist-composer Stanislas Verroust (1814 63) composed...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
SHOSTAKOVICH Works Unveiled
Shostakovich was extremely lucky in at least one respect: in his declining years he married a woman who was perfect...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2023
SCHUBERT Works for Piano Trio. Arpeggione Sonata
How does one review a recording of this nature? The very last studio activity of the late Lars Vogt, a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
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