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JS BACH Clavier-Übung III (Jeremy Filsell)

The Church and Choir School of St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, boasts no fewer than five pipe organs, the oldest...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2023

Krise/Crisis

There have already been various projects centred on the concept of social and cultural breakdown throughout the extended pandemic of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2023

Le Concert Des Oiseaux. Vincent Bouchot: Le Carnaval Des Animaux En Péril

The star of this album is the flageolet. But as such, ‘Le concert des oiseaux’ is not the most relaxing...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023

SALGADO Chamber Music, Vol 1

This recording was my introduction to the music of Luis Humberto Salgado (1903 77). Unlike so many other Latin American...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2023

MONTANARI; MOSSI 'Golden Strings': Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

It’s always a good sign when a recording’s first notes leap so vibrantly out of the stereo that all the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2023

IVIČEVIĆ Scarlet Songs

Two trends have recently emerged among adventurous composers. On the one hand, there are composers presenting aural refuge in nature...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023

HAYDN Complete Piano Trios, Vol 2 (Trio Gaspard)

Reviewing the first volume of Trio Gaspard’s projected Haydn cycle (9/22), Richard Wigmore praised ‘joyous, imaginative music-making that whets the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023

CHEUNG Music For Film, Sculpture, and Captions

In The Natural Word (2019) for ensemble, Asian-American composer Anthony Cheung explores the rum idea of creating musical illustrations of...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2023

BOYLE; IRELAND; MOERAN; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartets

Having already left such a favourable impression with their contribution to Nicky Spence’s distinguished reading of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2023

BIBER Mystery Sonatas (Amandine Beyer)

Recordings of Biber’s masterpiece have fallen off slightly since I devoted a Gramophone Collection to it (1/17), but this offers...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2023

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