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FRANCK Les Béatitudes (Madaras)
Joël-Marie Fauquet’s booklet note for this recording of Les Béatitudes (1879) is a model of its kind, as it does...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
CHARPENTIER; DESMAREST Te Deum
The most lavish of Charpentier’s four extant Te Deum settings was for an unknown occasion in 1692; there is an...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
CALDARA Gloria RESPIGHI Lauda per la Natività del Signore
Caldara’s Gloria in C for eight-part choir, soloists and orchestra (composed September 1707) might have formed part of a Mass...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
BARTÓK Village Scenes JANÁČEK Říkadla STRAVINSKY Les noces
This is a scintillating collection. Les noces may be a work audiences either love or hate (is it a concert...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
JS BACH Cantatas 56 & 82
Two favourite Bach cantatas for bass voice sung by Christoph Prégardien, one of the most respected lyric tenors of his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2024
JS BACH 'Bach. Vision 1'
Stuttgart’s distinguished Bach credentials in the post war years were largely built on the twin pillars of Karl Münchinger and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2024
CPE BACH Magnificat. Auf, schicke dich. Ammonia fortunata
‘Far more than a mere bridge between the two artistic peaks of the 18th century’ is how I recently described...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2024
Leon McCawley: Natural Connection - Piano Music Inspired by the Natural World
From most pianists, this sort of grab-bag programme would tend to be a collection of personal favourites, perhaps played from...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024
Martin James Bartlett: La Danse
Don’t be fooled by the funky title-lettering on the booklet. The programme of ‘La danse’ is hardly calculated for kicking...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2024
SCHUMANN Piano Works (Llŷr Williams)
This pair of generously filled discs attests to the Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams’s passion for this repertoire and his capacity...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024
MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte (Igor Levit)
This latest release from the pianist and activist Igor Levit is his personal response to the atrocities of 7 October....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
GRANADOS Goyescas. El pelele (Javier Perianes)
The main challenge for pianists taking on Granados’s Goyescas is making both literal and musical sense out of the composer’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
FERNÁNDEZ Piano Music (Martin Jones)
You have to hand it to Martin Jones. Now in his 84th year, he has amassed an extraordinary discography of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
CORRETTE; DANDRIEU 'French Organ Music of the Golden Age Vol 8' (David Ponsford)
Volume 8 of David Ponsford’s magisterial survey of 18th-century French organ music was recorded in May 2023 in Marmoutier Abbey...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2024
CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3; RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Peter Donohoe)
As they join the ranks of éminences grises, many musicians turn retrospective, revisiting repertoire high points to make final refinements....
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
BRAHMS 'Resonances' (Julian Jaeyoung Kim)
The 34-year-old pianist Julian Jaeyoung Kim keeps a vice-like grip on the dotted rhythms in the first movement of Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
BEACH Piano Music (Martina Frezzotti)
The more I listen to the music of Amy Beach, the more I wonder why it is not more widely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
BARTÓK Marzurkas JANÁČEK On an Overgrown Path (Piotr Anderszewski)
Piotr Anderszewski’s last release, a Gramophone Award winner, carefully curated excerpts from Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (2/21). This...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
ALKAN Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (Mark Viner)
The more one listens to Alkan’s music, the more one realises what an extraordinary composer he is. Though the three...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Upheaval: Bosmans, Pejačević, L & N Boulanger
Less than a decade ago, Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was such an unknown that Jeremy Nicholas could begin a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
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