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STANFORD ‘Cushendall – Irish Song Cycles’
Top billing on the booklet cover of this latest and most welcome Stanford release from Somm goes to the 1910...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (Klaus Florian Vogt)
Heldentenors have a surprisingly respectable recorded history in the most introspective of Schubert lieder, and Klaus Florian Vogt has the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024
Angela Gheorghiu: A Te, Puccini
The discovery of a lost Puccini song might prompt shrugs from those who don’t know the composer actually wrote any....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024
MOZART Requiem (Jansons)
Mariss Jansons recorded the Requiem in concert in Amsterdam a little under six years before this Munich performance, with two...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
LASSUS 'The Alchemist' Vol 1
For lovers of 16th-century music there can be few nuts harder to crack than the Magnificat settings of Lassus. There...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2024
M HAYDN Die Ährenleserin
'Haydn has no talent for musical theatre’, wrote Leopold Mozart about his Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn. Wolfgang Brunner and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
HANDEL Theodora (Cohen)
‘More prescient and pertinent with every performance’ is how Ruth Smith describes Theodora in a typically astute booklet note for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
A BONONCINI Cantate per Contralto con Violini
This recording was made in the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Austria, where Alois Mühlbacher was a choirboy....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2024
Déjà-rêvé: Dialogues Across Time (Klavierduo Neeb)
Ever since Bartók’s 1937 Sonata, the medium of two pianos and percussion has exerted a compelling fascination on contemporary composers,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
VILLA-LOBOS 'Do Brazil' (Wilhem Latchoumia)
The La Dolce Volta label’s high-end production values have always befitted Wilhem Latchoumia’s intelligent musicianship and cultivated pianism. Collectors familiar...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
Diaries: Schumann (Tiffany Poon)
Hong Kong-born New York-based Tiffany Poon is one of the piano world’s most enterprising vloggers and YouTube denizens, as well...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Works Vol 7 (Vladimir Feltsman)
In Vladimir Feltsman’s burly hands, Schubert’s Impromptus leap out of the drawing room into the opera house. The characteristically swimmy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
POULENC Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)
Poulenc always claimed that the truest measure of his piano-writing was to be found not in the solo works or...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2024
MUSSORGSKY Pictures SCHUMANN Kriesleriana (Robert Neumann)
‘If you play the text as it is printed you cannot hope for the music to make much sense. The...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2024
HAMELIN New Piano Works
Oh. My. Word. This is, I think, an important recording, not merely because it captures some of the most astonishing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
Philip Glass: Solo
‘If I’m to be remembered for anything’, Philip Glass has remarked, ‘it will probably be for the piano music, because...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024
BORENSTEIN Études, Opp. 66 & 86 & other piano works (Tra Nguyen)
Still in his early 50s, Nimrod Borenstein is rapidly establishing himself among the most recorded of contemporary composers in the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 2 (Beatrice Rana)
After elongating the opening bars of the Grave introduction of Chopin’s B flat minor Sonata, Beatrice Rana launches into the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
Alon Sariel: Plucked Bach II
This is an all-round stunning recording that has me desperately holding out for a ‘Plucked Bach III’. With the first...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024
JS BACH Six Partitas (Giulia Nuti)
Anglo-Italian harpsichordist Giulia Nuti has a longish discography as a lively and quick-fingered continuo player but this is only her...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
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