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BRUNEAU Requiem

The fact that Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934) studied with Massenet and had ripe operatic instincts is something that can scarcely...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014

JS BACH St John Passion

The opening chorus of any St John Passion will tell you much about the rest of the performance and here...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014

APERGHIS Wölfli-Kantata

The outsider art of Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), the Swiss-German autodidact who spent his entire adult life in an asylum, has...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

ADAMS The Gospel According to the other Mary

The Other Mary is Mary Magdalene. We may know her as the (supposedly) reformed prostitute who washed Jesus’s feet with...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2014

Christophe Pantillon: French Cello Solo Works after 1945

This disc may sound suspiciously like a gimmick by which to group together some hard-to-place niche repertoire but Christophe Pantillon’s...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014

Matthias Schorn: Music for Clarinet Solo

Back in 1976, Helmut Lachenmann composed his Accanto – a typically subversive and uncompromising critique of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014

Tom Poster: In Dance and Song

This lovingly chosen recital – striking in both choice and performance – celebrates dance and song, key aspects of music...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014

SCHUMANN Études symphoniques. Faschingsschwank aus Wien

Leon McCawley launches his all Schumann disc in high spirits with Faschingsschwank aus Wien. It’s the faster movements that come...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014

SCHUBERT Impromptus D899. Sonata D960

Oh dear. Listening to the opening of the C minor Impromptu, you do wish that Rudolf Buchbinder would leave it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014

RAVEL Valse nobles SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas Nos 4 & 5

Pairing Ravel and Scriabin is an intriguing idea – two composers with their own unique harmonic language (the Scriabin works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014

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