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MESSIAEN Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Bertrand Chamayou)

It’s always a thrill, and a privilege, to return to Messiaen’s mighty masterpiece. And this new one got me thinking...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2022

BOLCOM The Complete Rags (Marc-André Hamelin)

Hamelin and Bolcom are old friends on disc and in life. Back in 1987, the young Canadian recorded Twelve New...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2022

Alter Ego

The lyricism and novel sound world suggest moments on Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu’s 2008 album ‘Chiaroscuro’ (ECM). The fragility...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2022

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Nonet. Piano Trio. Piano Quintet

These three chamber works, which lay undisturbed and unperformed for the whole of the last century, were selected to be...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2022

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7. Pelléas Et Mélisande. King Christian II (Collon)

This is a rooted performance of Sibelius’s last symphony from the first non-Finn to lead the orchestra of the Finnish...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2022

RAVEL Piano Concertos. Mélodies (Cédric Tiberghien. Stéphane Degout)

Every now and again accounts of Ravel’s concertos come along that set new standards: the G major from Michelangeli and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2022

Wolfgang Holzmair : The Philips Recitals

As this welcome 70th-birthday retrospective reminds us, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair’s voice is surely one of the most immediately recognisable...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022

The Complete Warner Classics Edition Teldec and EMI Recordings Kurt Masur

Like so many great conductors from the past, recent or distant, over time Kurt Masur evolved his own sound, which...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2022

WORTHINGTON Passages Through Time

This is the second album Navona has devoted entirely to the music of Rain Worthington (b1949), though her works –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022

MATIEGKA 6 Sonates progressives pour guitare, Op 31 (David Starobin)

It is typical of David Starobin to wind up his career as a recording artist with music by a composer...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022

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