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Joyce DiDonato: Eden
We begin high up in the atmosphere with a chord that shimmers into being like the opening of Ralph Vaughan...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
STRAUSS 'Zueignung' (Sarah Wegener)
Though Sarah Wegener has an extensive discography, the majority of her recordings are ensemble efforts with concert works ranging from...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2022
SCHUBERT Winterreise (Benjamin Appl)
For the first release of his new relationship with Alpha, baritone Benjamin Appl dives deep into the wintry heart of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2022
PERGOLESI Stabat mater HAYDN Symphony No 49
A surprise awaits those expecting the voices of soprano Jodie Devos and mezzo Adèle Charvet to intertwine in the anguished...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
HANDEL Apollo e Dafne. Armida abbandonata
Francesco Corti uses orchestral pieces to creatively flesh out a programme presenting a pair of Handel’s best-known cantate con stromenti....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022
DOVE; MARTIN; WEIR Choral Works
Despite the dire predictions of certain doom-mongers, the quality of British liturgical choral music commissioned in the past few years...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022
BRAHMS Complete Songs Vol 1 (Christoph Prégardien)
Following its Schubert intégrale, Naxos is now launching a complete Brahms song edition, masterminded and annotated by Ulrich Eisenlohr. The...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022
JS BACH St John Passion (Gardiner)
After 22 years, Deutsche Grammophon returns to one of its most prodigious prodigal sons from the label’s pre-millennial era. As...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2022
MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas (Elisabeth Leonskaja)
Elisabeth Leonskaja had a productive lockdown. For her first release since returning to Warner Classics she has recorded the complete...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2022
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
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