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Gustav Leonhardt: Elizabethan Organ Music

Gustav Leonhardt (1928-2012) had a long and extraordinarily productive career, and his discography includes not just the legendary harpsichord recordings...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2022

Nurit Stark: Bartók, Ligeti, Veress, Eötvös

The supremely gifted Israeli violinist/viola player Nurit Stark has a passion for contemporary music and her command of tonal colour,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2022

Alexander Gadjiev: A & N Tcherepnin, Prokofiev

Sources close to the 2021 Chopin Competition jury say that had it not been for some inspired risk-taking from the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2022

PACHELBEL Organ Works, Vol 2 (Matthew Owens)

Matthew Owens’s first album of Pachelbel’s organ works from The Queen’s College, Oxford (10/21) was praised for his sensitive insights...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2022

NEUSIDLER Lute Music (Yavor Genov)

Composers such as Hans Neusidler, whose works could be seen as integral to the development of their instrument’s repertoire –...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2022

Jimin Oh-Havenith: Russian Piano Forte

In the small differences between Mussorgsky’s original piano score and Rimsky-Korsakov’s revision, Jimin Oh-Havenith sticks quite faithfully to the manuscript....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022

VOLANS; LISZT Études

Composers who write piano études usually aim for bravura and surface flash. Not so Kevin Volans. Although his études certainly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022

D JONES Rediscovered Piano Works (Martin Jones)

Daniel Jones (1912-93) is best known as the composer of 13 symphonies, eight string quartets, choral works and the incidental...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022

JS BACH; SEABOURNE Toccatas and Fantasies (Konstantin Lifschitz)

Several years ago pianist Konstantin Lifschitz approached his composer friend Peter Seabourne with the idea of composing a set of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022

JS BACH Complete Sonatas and Partitas (Kristóf Baráti)

You will struggle to find a more impassioned, feisty account of Bach’s solo music for violin. Verbier Festival Gold, the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022

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