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Review of Murray Perahia plays Chopin

Murray Perahia plays Chopin

A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As...

Reviewed by James Jolly in issue: 3/2011

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas

How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014

Review of Sacred Love

Sacred Love

Pushkin, Blok, Gogol, Pasternak: some fine Russian writers come together here. Their elusive and allusive verses both invite and defy...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014

Review of BAX Four Orchestral Pieces

BAX Four Orchestral Pieces

Composed in Rathgar, Dublin, and powerfully evocative of the County Wicklow landscape, Bax’s Four Orchestral Pieces were first heard in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014

Review of A Tribute To Penderecki

A Tribute To Penderecki

As Poland’s most famous living composer, Penderecki might expect to have been feted on his 80th birthday, as indeed it...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014

Review of Music for Remembrance

Music for Remembrance

This is an exquisite performance of the Duruflé Requiem, beautifully evoking the inherent intimacy of the version with chamber orchestra...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014

Review of Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol 3

Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol 3

This third helping of Eton Choirbook music will gladden all those interested in this fascinating repertory. The commitment shown to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014

Review of Chanson d'avril: French Chansons and Melodies

Chanson d'avril: French Chansons and Melodies

The American soprano Nicole Cabell’s recording career has been a curious one. After winning the BBC Cardiff Singer of the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2014

Review of Ave Maria: Virgin Mary in the Northern Lights

Ave Maria: Virgin Mary in the Northern Lights

This is an imaginative programme of settings of Marian texts by Nordic composers, including Anonymous (the Ave maris stella from...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014

Review of The Bells of Dawn: Russian Sacred and Folk Songs

The Bells of Dawn: Russian Sacred and Folk Songs

Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new disc explores two potent strands of Russia’s musical fabric, folksong and Orthodox Church anthems, separated in this...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014

 

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