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The last time I reviewed Inon Barnatan in these pages he was playing Schubert (Avie, 11/13), and most impressive it...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2022
Appearances can be deceptive. We’re told online that the Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl ‘combines a talent for classical music with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
If the Oscars had an Academy Award for musical instruments, the cello’s cabinet would be chock-full of trophies by now....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
Having walked out of his church job in Salzburg for the first time in August 1777, Mozart was packed off...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022
Many of the sonatas on this two-disc set of keyboard music by Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) are premiere recordings, and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2022
Although Liszt thought highly of his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and often performed them for friends long after he retreated...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
Alexander Kobrin, born (in 1980) and trained in Russia, now based in America, was the winner of the 2005 Van...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2022
Jonathan Fournel takes the Maestoso directive in the opening movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata seriously and the note values...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
The star of the show here is the mighty Walcker organ of Riga Cathedral. It makes a fabulous noise; especially...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2022
Benjamin Alard’s majestic progress through the keyboard music of Bach has reached Vol 5, subtitled ‘Toccata’ and encompassing works from...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2022
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
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