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Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (Alexander Melnikov)

Here’s an aural equivalent of time-lapse photography, a quick tour of musical history from JS Bach (a point of reference...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023

RZEWSKI Dreams. War Songs. Winter Nights. Saints and Sinners (Bobby Mitchell)

Composed between 2008 and 2016, the works on this release count among the strongest and most evocative from Frederic Rzewski’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2023

MOZART Piano Sonatas Vol 4 (Jean Muller)

Here reaching its fourth volume, Jean Muller’s Mozart survey has been garnering warm praise for its sensitivity to the idiom,...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2023

Piano Music of Francisco Mignone (Martin Jones)

In his early twenties, Francisco Mignone (1897-1986) left his native Brazil to study in Milan. He spent nearly a decade...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023

Music To Hear: Alfonso Ferrabosco, Music For Lyra Viol From 1609

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c1575-1628) was one of the greatest exponents of and composers for the lyra viol, a fretted...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023

Jean-Paul Gasparian: Debussy

The recording was made in the Salon de Musique, Hôtel de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris. This has an acoustic that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2023

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 and 7 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

Scharwenka’s ingenious four-hand versions of the Beethoven symphonies are not easy to carry off. They may have been intended for...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Complete Lute Works and other Transcriptions (Nigel North)

Nigel North’s four-disc series for Linn of ‘Bach on the Lute’ back in the 1990s was rightly admired: ‘performances that...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023

JS BACH Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 8: Köthen, 1717-1723 (Benjamin Alard)

Benjamin Alard has arrived at the eighth volume of a projected 18 of all Bach’s keyboard works. As he explains...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2023

Tessa Lark: The Stradgrass Sessions

'The Stradgrass Sessions’ – one of the more evocative album titles of late, conjuring late-into-the-night laughter, whiskey and musicians just...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023

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