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MUSSORGSKY 'Unorthodox Music'
Curiously titled and more curiously conceived, this album of Mussorgsky songs and solo piano music is performed on a level...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2022
MONTEVERDI 'Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves'
In 2017 master of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano ripped up the rulebook with ‘Night – Stories of Lovers...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
MAHLER; WAGNER Live from Salzburg (Elina Garanča)
Recorded at two concerts in consecutive years of the Salzburg Festival, this album sees the Latvian star mezzo Elīna Garanča...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
MACMILLAN Consecration
Linn’s survey of James MacMillan’s choral music with the Scottish professional chamber choir Cappella Nova has now reached its fourth...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
LOEWE The Other Erlking (Nicholas Mogg)
This is a fine and enjoyable debut from yet another outstanding young pair of UK song interpreters. Rather than offering...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
GRECHANINOV All-Night Vigil (Klava)
Any new release from the superb Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Kļava is bound to be noteworthy and this performance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
FAYRFAX Music for Tudor Kings & Queens
Coming of age as professional musicians in the middle of a global pandemic must be tough, but it scarcely seems...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
DIBDIN The Wags
Come one, come all: come to the camp of pleasure! The year is 1790 and the setting is an elegant...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2022
JS BACH Cantatas Nos 21 & 147 (Rademann)
Two Weimar-period cantatas are presented in their revised Leipzig versions, prepared during Bach’s first few months at the Thomaskirche. Ich...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022
Inon Barnatan: Time Traveler’s Suite
The last time I reviewed Inon Barnatan in these pages he was playing Schubert (Avie, 11/13), and most impressive it...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2022
Pavel Šporcl: Paganiniana
Appearances can be deceptive. We’re told online that the Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl ‘combines a talent for classical music with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
Kian Soltani: Cello Unlimited
If the Oscars had an Academy Award for musical instruments, the cello’s cabinet would be chock-full of trophies by now....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
MOZART Solo Keyboard Works (Keiko Shichijo)
Having walked out of his church job in Salzburg for the first time in August 1777, Mozart was packed off...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022
MONTGEROULT Complete Piano Sonatas (Nicolas Horvath)
Many of the sonatas on this two-disc set of keyboard music by Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) are premiere recordings, and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2022
LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Saskia Giorgini)
Although Liszt thought highly of his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and often performed them for friends long after he retreated...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
CHOPIN Piano Sonatas (Alexander Kobrin)
Alexander Kobrin, born (in 1980) and trained in Russia, now based in America, was the winner of the 2005 Van...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2022
BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Fugue on a Theme by Handel (Jonathan Fournel)
Jonathan Fournel takes the Maestoso directive in the opening movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata seriously and the note values...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
JS BACH Organ Works (Elena Privalova)
The star of the show here is the mighty Walcker organ of Riga Cathedral. It makes a fabulous noise; especially...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2022
JS BACH The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol 5 (Benjamin Alard)
Benjamin Alard’s majestic progress through the keyboard music of Bach has reached Vol 5, subtitled ‘Toccata’ and encompassing works from...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2022
Christian-Pierre La Marca: Wonderful World
Rather aptly, Gramophone’s 2021 Concept Album Award-winner Christian-Pierre La Marca has not only gone conceptual again for his second album...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
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