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M BERKELEY Collaborations

Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley (76 years...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024

Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse (Aurelien Pontier)

Recorded in the Salle Colonne, Paris, in 2021, Aurélien Pontier’s album is ‘an act of homage to the Vienna of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings

Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge – two names which I suspect will be unfamiliar to many readers. Almost exact...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

Reformation: Keyboard Works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck (Mishka Rushdie Momen)

Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen covers much of the same ground in this album of keyboard works by the English virginalists...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024

Fazil Say: Morning/Evening

A disc arrives for review, you see the name of the artist(s), you survey the repertoire and already your critical...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024

Handel Remembered (Kenneth Hamilton)

Kenneth Hamilton’s writings about Romantic performance practice are always erudite, insightful, vividly expressed and delightfully witty, and this holds true...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024

SWEELINCK Keyboard Works (Andrea Vivanet)

The Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet is smart to mix a representative spectrum of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s basic compositional forms –...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024

LE BRET Pieces de Clavecin (Simone Pierini)

Well here’s a name that’s probably new to most of us. Le Bret published a single book of harpsichord pieces...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 28 & 29 (James Brawn)

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024

Rooted: Smetana, Suk, Martin, Coleridge-Taylor

The Neave Trio are noted for their eclectic choice of repertoire, and here their broad interests once again illuminate unfamiliar...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024

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