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Maxim Bernard: Hommage a Horowitz
There are many ways to make a debut disc stand out, as stand out it must. A prize-winner of a...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2022
B-A-C-H: Anatomy of A Motif (Simon Johnson)
Having spent 13 years as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Simon Johnson took...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022
Tianxu An: Tchaikovsky - Rachmaninov - Prokofiev
You might have heard of the Chinese pianist Tianxu An before, not because of his piano-playing but because of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin
Ivo Pogorelich turns to Chopin for his second Sony solo recital, symbolising a return to the scene of his youthful...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2022
BYRD Keyboard Music (Friederike Chylek)
With this new collection of works by William Byrd, harpsichordist Friederike Chylek returns to a composer who has been a...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2022
Sergey Tanin Plays…Brahms, Schubert-Liszt & Prokofiev
Sergey Tanin was born in 1995. He is a graduate of the Bosikov High School of Music (in the far-east...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
BEACH Complete Works For Piano Duo (Genova Dimitrov Duo)
‘War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography’ – a quote attributed to the satirist Ambrose Bierce. Which is why...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (Leonidas Kavakos)
Booklet notes by Tully Potter include what at first seems to be a detailed survey of the recorded history of...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
BACEWICZ Piano Works (Peter Jablonski)
Listening to Peter Jablonski’s new Ondine album, pianists and lovers of piano music may be prompted to ask: ‘Where has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2022
ABEL; JS BACH 'Solo Bach-Abel' (Lucile Boulanger)
Bags of invention have gone into this album. Inspired by the ‘arrangement idiom’ of the Baroque, Lucile Boulanger has created...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
Beethoven, Mozart, Seabourne & Holloway: Horn Quintets
There cannot be much repertoire for his instrument that Ondřej Vrabec has not yet tackled, which makes his collection of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022
Horn and Piano: A Cor Basse Recital
'Punto blows magnifique’, enthused Mozart to his father from Mannheim in 1778. At the end of the century the Bohemian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022
PIAZZOLLA Escualo5
Astor Piazzolla’s centenary in 2021 was marked by a slew of recordings, including superb releases from Karen Gomyo (BIS, A/21),...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
MOZART String Quartets, Vol 4 (Armida Quartet)
Gramophone caught up with the Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle almost a year ago, with a two-disc set (Vol 3, 4/21)...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
MOERAN Chamber Music (Fidelio Trio)
Writing in the booklet, the Fidelio Trio’s violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea eloquently describe their strong ties to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2022
LECLAIR Violin Sonatas, Book 3 - Op. 5, Nos. 1-4
Famed for his Italianate high virtuosity but equally for employing it only with the utmost taste and grace, and for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022
KAPUSTIN 'Blueprint - Piano Music For Jazz Trio'
In welcoming the unrestrained brilliance of Frank Dupree in Kapustin’s Fourth Piano Concerto (A/21), I compared the experience to listening...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
JENKINS Four-Part Consorts (Phantasm)
Fun fact: the viol consort music of the 16th and 17th centuries was so polyphonically complex and so democratic in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022
IDDON Sapindales
The music on Martin Iddon’s second portrait disc on Another Timbre casts a flitting shadow at once medieval and contemporary....
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2022
BIRTWISTLE Chamber Works (Nash Ensemble)
For Harrison Birtwistle to change the title of Pulse Sampler to ‘Danse sacrale’ would suggest an inappropriately literal homage to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2022
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