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Vikingur Olafsson: Mozart & Contemporaries
Just when you feel you’ve got the measure of Víkingur Ólafsson he veers off in an unexpected direction, and this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021
Alice Sara Ott: Echoes of Life
Alice Sara Ott began recording with DG 13 years ago, she writes in the booklet, and her new recording, ‘Echoes...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
Alasdair Beatson: Aus Wien
Much thought and care have gone into devising this musical love letter to Vienna from Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson. His...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2021
TELEMANN 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin (Iryna Gintova)
Engineer Joël Cormier has done an excellent job on this latest release from Orchid Classics. Cormier has captured warmth and...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2021
SCHUMANN Arabeske. Kreisleriana. Fantasie (Stephen Hough)
Few musicians have had the inclination, opportunity and wherewithal to record as frequently as Stephen Hough. Now 59, he has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
Sonya Bach: Rachmaninov
Korean pianist Sonya Bach takes Rachmaninov more by subtlety than by storm. This pays many dividends. She makes the Second...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2021
PACHELBEL Organ Works, Vol 1 (Matthew Owens)
Poor old Johann Pachelbel. Forever associated with just one work, the (now somewhat hackneyed) Canon in D, he has tended,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021
Camiel Boomsma: Rediscovered - Bagatellen and Klavierstücke
Gerhard Hamm (1835-1904) was born in Trier, where he received his earliest musical training at the Cathedral. He was organist...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
FINNISSY Gershwin Arrangements. More Gershwin (Lukas Huisman)
They may have come about through informal circumstances, but Michael Finnissy’s two sets of Gershwin arrangements are among his most...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021
CHOPIN Piano Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 (Javier Perianes)
Javier Perianes is an artist of richly lyrical gifts, which have stood him in good stead in repertoire such as...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021
BUSONI Elegies. Toccata (Peter Donohoe)
Though Peter Donohoe surely needs no introduction to readers of these pages, it may come as a surprise that this...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2021
JS BACH Bach from Ingolstadt (Franz Hauk)
If you like your Bach bold and sturdy then the two opening tracks of this new album from the heart...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2021
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Alexandra Papastefanou)
The word ‘natural’ is such a cliché, yet it constantly comes to mind over the course of Alexandra Papastefanou’s Goldberg...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2021
JS BACH 6 Suites (Myriam Rignol)
The booklet note expends ink on the historical justifications for playing Bach’s Cello Suites on the viola da gamba, but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2021
Linos Piano Trio: Stolen Music
As an ensemble on a mission, the Linos Piano Trio are not so much stealing the repertoire of others as...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021
Soundmaps: Extended Realities (Valeria Zorina)
As concepts for string recitals go, scordatura – the abnormal tuning of a string instrument in order to obtain special...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021
Nature and the Imagination (Pelléas Ensemble)
It was after hearing Saint-Saëns’s Septet, whose unusual casting includes a trumpet, that Debussy had the notion of writing a...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021
Con Arte e Maestria: Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque
Oliver Webber deserves a knighthood for services to period violin performance. He is a fount of historical knowledge and an...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2021
British Oboe Quintets (Nicholas Daniel. Doric String Quartet)
The chamber combination of oboe and string quartet would seem to lend itself ideally to the pastoral image of British...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2021
ROTA Chamber Music
In addition to his many film scores, Nino Rota also composed numerous concert and stage works as well as working...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021
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