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MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas (Kenny Broberg)
Question: define the word ‘cheeky’. Answer: a person who (a) devotes their solo debut CD release to three of the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023
JANÁCEK; SCHUBERT 'Soulmates' (Herbert Schuch)
This is the second time Herbert Schuch has paired Schubert and Janáček on record. He lifts the D899 Impromptus out...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023
HOWELLS Piano Music, Vol 2 (Matthew Schellhorn)
Here’s another feast for admirers of Herbert Howells (1892-1983), a second volume of piano music marvellously played by Matthew Schellhorn,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023
HENSELT Complete Études and Préambules (Daniel Grimwood)
Considering how germane Adolf von Henselt is to the literature and history of the piano, reviews of his music make...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2023
DUKAS Complete Piano Music (Vincenzo Maltempo)
Dukas’s high-minded fin de siècle Piano Sonata is a series of paradoxes. It’s the culmination of the 19th century’s ‘grand...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023
CHOPIN; SCRIABIN 'Puzzle' (Sophie Pacini)
‘I have combined pieces which have accompanied and reassured me in seemingly small, but ultimately crucial moments of my life’,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023
JS BACH Clavier-Übung III (Jeremy Filsell)
The Church and Choir School of St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, boasts no fewer than five pipe organs, the oldest...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2023
Krise/Crisis
There have already been various projects centred on the concept of social and cultural breakdown throughout the extended pandemic of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2023
Le Concert Des Oiseaux. Vincent Bouchot: Le Carnaval Des Animaux En Péril
The star of this album is the flageolet. But as such, ‘Le concert des oiseaux’ is not the most relaxing...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
SALGADO Chamber Music, Vol 1
This recording was my introduction to the music of Luis Humberto Salgado (1903 77). Unlike so many other Latin American...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2023
MONTANARI; MOSSI 'Golden Strings': Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
It’s always a good sign when a recording’s first notes leap so vibrantly out of the stereo that all the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2023
IVIČEVIĆ Scarlet Songs
Two trends have recently emerged among adventurous composers. On the one hand, there are composers presenting aural refuge in nature...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023
HAYDN Complete Piano Trios, Vol 2 (Trio Gaspard)
Reviewing the first volume of Trio Gaspard’s projected Haydn cycle (9/22), Richard Wigmore praised ‘joyous, imaginative music-making that whets the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
CHEUNG Music For Film, Sculpture, and Captions
In The Natural Word (2019) for ensemble, Asian-American composer Anthony Cheung explores the rum idea of creating musical illustrations of...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023
BOYLE; IRELAND; MOERAN; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartets
Having already left such a favourable impression with their contribution to Nicky Spence’s distinguished reading of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023
BIBER Mystery Sonatas (Amandine Beyer)
Recordings of Biber’s masterpiece have fallen off slightly since I devoted a Gramophone Collection to it (1/17), but this offers...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2023
BERKELEY; BRAHMS; LESHNOFF Horn Trios
I vividly recall being bowled over by my first encounter with Lennox Berkeley’s eloquent Horn Trio through David Pyatt’s superlative...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023
BERG; SCHOENBERG 'Transfigurations'
Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2023
JS BACH The Well-Tempered Consort – III
What a wonderful surprise. I had assumed that with Vol 2 of their ‘Well-Tempered Consort’ done and dusted, Phantasm had...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar - Music for Strings
This repertoire calls for the warmth and resonance that are hallmarks of the ‘Chandos sound’, and St Augustine’s Kilburn serves...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2023
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