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CHAMINADE Piano Music (Mark Viner)

I might just as well simply repeat what I wrote in the February 2019 issue when I welcomed Mark Viner’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022

JS BACH 'Bach on the Bassoon' (Bram van Sambeek)

Bram van Sambeek brings us Bach on the bassoon. And to overdo the alliteration, his playing is bold, beguiling and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

JS BACH The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 7 (Benjamin Alard)

The chorale prelude has so long been established in our musical culture as a stand-alone organ piece that its origins...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2022

A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888

Important cello sonatas arrived in trickles until 1878, Steven Isserlis writes in his detailed and delightfully informative booklet note, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

Les frères Francœur

This album charts the Francoeur family – a French musical dynasty spanning the Baroque to the early Romantic period. First,...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

Society: Bach; Abel

The excellent booklet notes tell us that there is ‘no extant record’ of what works were specifically performed at the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

HOLST; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)

Recordings of Vaughan Williams’s two numbered string quartets have never been exactly thick on the ground, so a hearty welcome...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 3 WALTON String Quartet in A minor

What can I say? This is just a fantastic recording. It sounds great, the playing is erudite and courageous, and...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2022

SELAOCOE Where is Home (Hae Ke Kae)

‘Hae Ke Kae’ means ‘Where Is Home?’ in Sesotho, and while Abel Selaocoe’s ancestral home may be in South Africa,...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2022

MOZART; TELEMANN 'Canons'

Mozart wrote counterpoint throughout his career, from dutiful fugues while learning his craft to worthy stile antico polyphony in his...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

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