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Hommage à J. S. B. (Jonian Ilias Kadesha)

An ingenious sequence this, some pieces straying further from a Bachian template than others (Kurtág’s gnomic and texturally varied Signs,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022

Processional: Organ music by Dom Sebastian Wolff (Richard Lea)

Ad Fontes, perhaps the first record label spawned by a monastery, has produced some gems since its inception in 2019,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022

VASKS Piano Works (Reinis Zariņš)

This generous album may not contain all of Vasks’s solo piano music (there are three further works omitted here) but,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

TAN DUN Piano Music (Ralph van Raat)

Tan Dun’s numerous large-scale dramatic and multimedia projects have rather overshadowed the instrumental genres in his sizeable output, making this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022

SCARLATTI Sonatas (Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy)

Contrasts of mood together with unified relationships of tempo and key signature characterise one the most intelligently programmed and distinctively...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Vol 5 (Peter Donohoe)

Critical reaction in these pages to Peter Donohoe’s solo Mozart has been mixed. David Threasher enjoyed Vols 1 and 2,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022

HAYDN Piano Sonatas, Vol 11 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

There’s my next Christmas present sorted, then: the box of all 11 volumes of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Haydn survey, please...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2022

BEETHOVEN; SAINT-SAËNS; SCHUMANN 'Symphonies Vol 2' (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony arranged for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) is a premiere recording. When I welcomed Vol 1...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2022

JS BACH; WALTHER Concerto Transcriptions (Dónal McCann)

This debut album from Dónal McCann is one of the most satisfying organ recordings to have nourished my ears for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2022

Une Prière

The piano trio that is Ensemble Contraste has come up with several resourceful miscellanies over the years and none more...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022

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