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Review of JS BACH Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Céline Frisch)

JS BACH Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Céline Frisch)

Céline Frisch

Alpha

With Book 2, Céline Frisch completes her traversal of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, maintaining the stylishly high standards and cultivated musicianship...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019

Review of L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (Céline Frisch)

L'aimable. Une journée avec Louis XV (Céline Frisch)

Céline Frisch

Alpha

Céline Frisch explores the work of Couperin’s contemporaries and successors in this amusing programme, ‘L’aimable’, constructed around the conceit of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2022

Review of Bach - Wks for Clavecin

Bach - Wks for Clavecin

Céline Frisch

Les Nouveaux Interprètes

Celine Frisch began with the harpsichord at the age of six, studied in Basle with Andreas Staier and Jesper Christiensen,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/2000

Review of Anglebert Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully

Anglebert Harpsichord Works and Airs after Lully

Café Zimmermann | Céline Frisch | Pablo Valetti

Alpha

This two-CD set includes performances of both Lully’s original opera orchestra music and Anglebert’s harpsichord transcriptions. To them, Céline Frisch...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2005

Review of Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

Alexander Melnikov | Café Zimmermann | Céline Frisch | Pablo Valetti

Alpha

A ‘very singular double concerto’ is how Richard Bratby described CPE Bach’s work for two keyboards in an interview in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024

Review of RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin, Volume I

RAMEAU Pièces de Clavecin, Volume I

Steven Devine

Resonus Classics

For the first in a three-release series surveying Rameau’s complete keyboard works, Steven Devine plays on a harpsichord copied from...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014

Review of The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach

The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach

Café Zimmermann

Alpha

I’ve followed Café Zimmermann with great interest down the years, and this latest addition to their catalogue is no less...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2022

Review of Vivaldi Flute Sonatas

Vivaldi Flute Sonatas

XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières

Accord

This recording of seven sonatas, some by Vivaldi, others definitely or probably not, was made in 1991 and was initially...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1999

Review of Schumann: Piano Works

Schumann: Piano Works

Maria João Pires

Excellently recorded as recently as last August, this makes a more consistently positive impression than Maria Joao Pires's LP of...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Review of Bach Goldberg Variations

Bach Goldberg Variations

Malcolm Proud

Maya Recordings

In his review of Rousset’s recording‚ Lionel Salter welcomed it as one that would have entertained Count Keyserling during his...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

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