Book review - A Light in the Darkness: The Life and Music of Joaquín Rodrigo (Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark)
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
Because of his ‘top-dog’ status among early Renaissance composers, questions of attribution loom particularly large in Josquin research. The issue...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2021
François-Joseph Gossec’s Messe des morts of 1760 was one of his first breakthrough works. With its rich orchestration, it soon...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021
The overall sound made by the Fieri Consort and Chelys Consort of Viols is bliss. The viols glisten with the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021
With Riddle Songs, Stef Connor has composed an album of songs setting Old English texts. Since no music survives from...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2021
It is a tragedy that Josef Lhevinne, indisputably one of the greatest pianists of the last century, recorded so little....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2021
The sound of the bandoneón – penetrating, plaintive and pulsating with emotion – is the sound of the Argentine tango...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021
A personal note: I heard bits and pieces of Frederic Rzewski’s Songs of Insurrection in progress while the composer was...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
For me the litmus test with any recording of Paganini’s mighty ‘24’ is the ‘Trill’ Caprice (No 6), where a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2021
A pianist colleague likened the young Andrei Gavrilov’s fire-eating virtuosity to a state-of-the-art BMW without the driver. It’s true that...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
A Light in the Darkness is a much-needed addition to the limited literature on this composer in...
This unusual network player has ‘lifestyle’ appeal, but packs serious audio and computer technology...
One of McVeigh’s great strengths is his forensic examination of the infrastructure of Edwardian...
‘It’s a sizeable sum to lay out at one shot, but given the quality – and quantity – of what’s on...
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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