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AUCOIN 'Orphic Moments'

Not long turned 30, Massachusetts-born composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is easily (perhaps too easily) pigeonholed as the Thomas Adès of his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022

LECLAIR; LOCATELLI; VIVALDI Violin Concertos (Théotime Langlois de Swarte)

I’ll start by getting all the bad things about this album out of the way. We are told that Théotime...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

Pauline Kim Harris: Wild at Heart

The American musicologist Raymond Erickson has documented more than 200 versions of JS Bach’s Chaconne, ranging from the original for...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2022

D WHITE Complete Organ Music (Daryl Robinson)

David Ashley White’s solo organ works comprise what the composer calls a ‘small but indispensable’ part of his extensive catalogue...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2022

PERSICHETTI Organ Works (Iain Quinn)

This is an intelligently programmed album, representing about half of the music Vincent Persichetti (1915 87), who was a church...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022

MOZART 'Post Scriptum' (Sergei Kvitko)

Embellishing Mozart’s works for piano and orchestra is nothing new, yet Sergei Kvitko goes the extra mile throughout the three...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

BRIDGE Piano Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonata No 2 (Sally Pinkas)

The piano sonatas of Shostakovich (his Second) and Frank Bridge are respectively dedicated to friends lost in war, and make...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

Jeanine De Bique: Mirrors

Jeanine De Bique impressed me recently with her assured singing as La Folie in William Christie’s Platée (Harmonia Mundi, 12/21),...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022

WEINBERG The Passenger (Kluttig)

Some 55 years after its composition and 25 years since its composer’s death, The Passenger has well and truly arrived....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2022

RAMEAU Achante et Céphise (Kossenko)

The pastorale-héroïque Acante et Céphise – the first name misprinted ‘Achante’ in the composer’s uncorrected first proof of the printed...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2022

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