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HENSELT Complete Études and Préambules (Daniel Grimwood)

Considering how germane Adolf von Henselt is to the literature and history of the piano, reviews of his music make...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2023

DUKAS Complete Piano Music (Vincenzo Maltempo)

Dukas’s high-minded fin de siècle Piano Sonata is a series of paradoxes. It’s the culmination of the 19th century’s ‘grand...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023

CHOPIN; SCRIABIN 'Puzzle' (Sophie Pacini)

‘I have combined pieces which have accompanied and reassured me in seemingly small, but ultimately crucial moments of my life’,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023

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

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