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Lillian Gordis Plays Bach

Some charming playing here from California-born, Paris-based harpsichordist Lillian Gordis, and what’s perhaps even more special is how much it...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022

ALBÉNIZ Iberia (Nelson Goerner)

Aside from navigating its considerable technical hurdles and textural complexities, pianists who take on Iberia must convey idiomatic affinity and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022

Anne Akiko Meyers: Shining Night

This recording, like so many others that have come my way this year, seems aimed to offer comfort. The title,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022

Le monde selon George Antheil

Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s latest programme, a typically adventurous affair, has been put together with considerable care. To open with Morton Feldman’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2022

WOLOSOFF 'Paradise Found' Music for Cello and Piano

Lifelong New Yorker Bruce Wolosoff (b1955) is a formidable pianist and a composer who delights in blurring genre boundaries. I’ve...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022

WEINBERG String Quartets Nos 1, 7 & 11 (Arcadia Quartet)

The first volume in the Arcadia Quartet’s cycle of Weinberg’s string quartets (3/21) was a solid basis from which to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022

RUEHR 'Icarus' and other chamber music

I was mightily impressed with Elena Ruehr’s first six quartets (5/18), choosing that Avie set as my Critics’ Choice for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022

RACHMANINOV; ROSE; SMETANA Piano Trios

With a discography including two volumes of Haydn (Naxos), the piano trios of Saint-Saëns (Guild, 11/14) and newer works by...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022

MOZART Complete Violin Sonatas (Andrew Smith)

Piano-accompanied performances of all of Mozart’s violin sonatas are surprisingly few and far between. Most duos – perhaps wisely –...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2022

LUPO Fantasia (Fretwork)

An intriguing detail in the booklet note tells us that Thomas Lupo (1571-1627) was paid 40 marks in 1621 to...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022

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