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BYRD The Great Service. English Anthems

The novelty of this take on Byrd’s longest and grandest work is that David Skinner and the singers of Alamire...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2024

BENEVOLI Missa Benevola

Mark Seow waxed ecstatic about the first volume of I Fagiolini’s Benevoli series (A/23), which continues with a Mass for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2024

JS BACH Arias for Alto (Zoltan Darago)

Bach wrote some of his best music for the alto voice. In ‘Erbarme dich’ from the St Matthew Passion and...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2024

Peter Donohoe: Waltzes

Peter Donohoe takes his time over the course of Schumann’s Abegg Variations, shaping the long phrases with expansive yet elegantly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

Alexi Kenney: Shifting Ground

This solo recital is ‘an exploration of how Bach’s influence has rippled through time’, Alexi Kenney writes in a very...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

Polyphonic Dreams (Victor Nicoara)

Having already established his Busoni credentials in a collection centred on the six Sonatinas (A/21), Victor Nicoara now releases this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

New Dances of the League of David

The idea of contemporary composers writing works in direct response to masterpieces by composers from the past may be old...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2024

Made in USA - Gershwin, Beach, Barber (Claire Huangci)

I remember first hearing Claire Huangci’s blazing Paderewski Concerto (Berlin Classics) and being knocked out by her dexterity as she...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21 (Ronald Brautigam)

Schubert’s final piano sonatas are strange works, full of odd phrase lengths, unexpected modulations, bewildering detours and juxtapositions of seemingly...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW2024

NIELSEN 'Espansiva’

Nielsen for piano four hands. Who knew? Probably only those who had been assiduous enough to read the prefaces to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2024

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