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JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Klára Würtz)

Hungarian-born Klára Würtz is a matured child prodigy with a difference: her pianism sidesteps overt display or affectedness in favour...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022

JS BACH The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 6 (Benjamin Alard)

Volume 6 in Benjamin Alard’s cycle covering JS Bach’s complete keyboard output brings us The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. It’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022

Mozart Momentum - 1786

I was lucky enough to review the first volume of ‘Mozart Momentum’ (6/21) and this second one, centred around 1786,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Mitsuko Uchida)

Has Diabelli’s innocent theme ever been given such a sharp profile, I wonder? The grace notes are fractionally elongated, so...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2022

ElectroResonance

This programme of interactive electronic music by composer-improvisers Jane Rigler, Curtis Bahn and Thomas Ciufo was recorded live on a...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022

Collected Works of Beth Mehocic

The title of this disc is misleading. Beth Mehocic (1953-2022) composed a good deal more than the six works collated...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

LYN A Point on a Slow Curve

It took Dana Lyn eight years to create what might be described as a musical diorama accompanying the process by...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022

ELISHA 'Anthelion'

One of the greatest joys of being a reviewer is encountering an unfamiliar compositional voice. Adrienne Elisha (1958-2017) was a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022

AYLWARD Celestial Forms and Stories

The title of John Aylward’s five-movement suite, performed on a New Focus disc by members of Klangforum Wien, comes from...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2022

Nadine Sierra: Made for Opera

In the booklet note for her second solo album, Nadine Sierra waxes lyrical about how she was formed as a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

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