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Percussionist Calum Huggan’s debut solo album, alongside displaying his technical chops and sensitivity, shows how open the marimba is for...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2021
Yet another vividly colour-coded set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, music that seems to have sidled up alongside Bartók’s late...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 83) is not noted for her piano music but wrote for the instrument throughout her career, and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
Paul Lewis’s second volume of Haydn sonatas features, like the first (which I reviewed in 5/18), four strikingly different characters....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021
The Dutilleux discography having grown out of all proportion to his output says much for the esteem in which his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021
Chopin indicates his Op 18 as a Grande valse brillante, yet Anna Fedorova’s fussy detailing and unsettled basic pulse make...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
A long list of international competition victories and performances grace the 39-year-old Israeli-born, American-based pianist Ran Dank’s résumé, not to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
Sophie Yates is an artist who wears her immense erudition lightly. Listening to her, one encounters the composer’s voice, clothed...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021
When we say Bach was a family man, what do we mean? Albums such as the ‘Alt-Bachisches Archiv’ from Cantus...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
Christoph Croisé gives an exceptionally free account of Kodály’s monumental Solo Sonata, applying rubato copiously throughout. It’s a somewhat risky...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021
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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
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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