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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

My viewing completed, I thought to myself: this has to be the greatest religious work of them all. The ultimate...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2012

ANDRIESSEN De Staat. Anaïs Nin

Lots of composers write music that sounds like Louis Andriessen’s – but luckily Louis Andriessen isn’t one of them. The...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2012

Relic: Music for the French Lute

Listening to this recording, it is hard to imagine Anders Ericson playing ‘progressive metal’ on the electric guitar – something...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2012

Collage

Another talented artist hoping to be the next Lang Lang or Yuja Wang and another booklet biography with the usual...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012

Thomas Trotter: Virtuoso Organ Showpieces

Filming an organist playing a recital is a notoriously difficult assignment. Either the position of the organ will not allow...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012

Mr Tomkins his Lessons of Worth

This selection, culled from Thomas Tomkins’s ‘lessons of worthe’, is an exciting foray into some of the darker corners of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012

WHITLOCK. CH STEWART Organ Wks

Dotted around the vast output of British organ composers of the 19th and 20th centuries is a tiny handful of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Complete Music for Piano Duo and Duet, Vol 1

Shostakovich’s two-piano and duet transcriptions of his symphonies served strictly utilitarian purposes. Essentially they allowed the composer himself, and his...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012

SCHUMANN Papillons. Piano Sonata etc

The C major Fantasie continues to exert its fascination upon pianists and pianophiles, and here come two new recordings of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2012

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 7 SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 5

In Alexander Gavrylyuk we have a young Russian pianist who has surely inherited the mantle of Emil Gilels, during his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2012

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