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Magdalena Hoffman: Nightscapes for Harp
When my daughter was four or five and having trouble falling asleep, I slipped a lovely Telarc CD by harpist...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
Ruth Slenczynska: My Life In Music
Last year I was lucky enough to review the wonderful DG Eloquence set of Ruth Slenczynska’s ‘Complete American Decca Recordings’...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
Daniel Barenboim: Encores
Far be it from me to be a party pooper, but my first reaction on seeing the running order of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
Rebecca Omordia: African Pianism
For her fascinating new Somm release, ‘African Pianism’, Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebecca Omordia has chosen music from three Nigerian composers, Ayo...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2022
WEINBERG Sonatas For Violin Solo (Gidon Kremer)
The unaccompanied sonatas for strings (four each for viola and cello, three for violin and one for double bass) might...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
TABAKOVA; VLADIGEROV 'Slavic Roots' (Marina Staneva)
The young Bulgarian pianist Marina Staneva’s solo CD debut offers two major-length works by Pancho Vladigerov, whose ingenuous Romantic keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
RAVEL The complete music for solo piano, Vol 1 (Oleg Marshev)
The old adage ‘let sleeping dogs lie’ applies to Maurice Ravel’s La parade, an over-extended music-hall pastiche that never should...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
RACHMANINOV Piano Works (Jean-Paul Gasparian)
This is the first appearance in these pages of the French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (b1995, Paris) but I suspect he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14, 17 & 23 (Nikolai Lugansky)
This is the second volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Beethoven to have come my way and the ruggedness that coloured his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 2 (Linus Roth)
While not wishing to brand this comely trio of performances a ‘throwback’, it does bring in its train a key...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
Psappha: Commissions
It hardly seems three decades since Tim Williams founded the Manchester-based Psappha, its track record in terms of commissioning or...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
Coco: Origins
Those with eyes and ears fixed on the BBC Young Musician competition will know that in 2020 the strings final...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
Fractales
Ensemble Fractales are a specialist new music chamber group comprising flautist Renata Kambarova, clarinettist Benjamin Maneyrol, violinist (and occasional viola...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
English Music for Viola and Piano (Sarah-Jane Bradley)
The viola has been the source of inspiration behind a good deal of chamber music written by 20th-century British composers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG Piano Trios. Songs
The relationship between Shostakovich and Weinberg has often been discussed over recent years, this collection throwing the reciprocal nature of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
SCHUBERT Violin Sonata. Rondo. Fantasie (Viktoria Mullova)
Schubert’s three mature works for violin and piano make an ideal disc-length programme, the Duo Sonata (1817) expanding on the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022
PAUS 'Cabin Fever'
This enterprising programme of music by Marcus Paus (b1979) is adroitly presented. Disc 1 comprises a set of (to use...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
MACRAE 'Ursa Minor' Chamber Music
This is an intelligently programmed album of intelligently constructed, sonically well-imagined music by one of Scotland’s most innovative composers, Stuart...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
LABOR Clarinet Trio. Cello Sonata No. 2
The Bohemian-born musician Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, lived long enough to record. A surviving portion...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
CHOPIN; POULENC 'Bleu' Cello Sonatas
This programme was designed, we’re told in the booklet note, to explore the relationship between the colour blue and the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
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