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CLYNE Mythologies

Mark Pullinger wrote movingly of Anna Clyne’s cello concerto DANCE (2019) in the August issue, concluding that it ‘should make...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

BEN-HAIM Music of Israel (Welber)

It’s good to see the music of the Munich-born Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim receiving increasing attention from record companies. The...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020

Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré

Unlike Leonard Bernstein’s famous recording of these same two late Beethoven quartets with the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic (DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3. Triple Concerto (Martin Helmchen)

Unless a Choral Fantasy is waiting in the wings, this new disc rounds out Martin Helmchen’s collaboration with Andrew Manze...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

AMMANN; BARTOK; RAVEL Piano Concertos (Andreas Haefliger)

To title a piece The Piano Concerto with the definite article up front may seem a tad self-aggrandising. Yet Dieter...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020

HAMMERSCHMIDT 'Ach Jesus stirbt'

Compared with the famous triumvirate of his contemporaries, Schütz, Schein and Scheidt (or even Michael Praetorius), Andreas Hammerschmidt (c1611-1675) is...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2020

Isabelle Demers: The Chicago Recital

Isabelle Demers is a Quebec-born organist who revels in the music she plays and the sounds she can produce by...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020

HERMANN Whitman. Psycho

Like many successful Hollywood composers, Bernard Herrmann pursued musical endeavours beyond (in his time) the celluloid. Studies at Juilliard were...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020

FUCHS Point of Tranquility

Let me say right from the outset that this disc is as engaging, well performed and brightly recorded a programme...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020

JS BACH Soli Dei Gloria: Transcriptions for Trumpet and Organ

Inspired by Pablo Casals’s belief in playing Bach every day, and the conviction that Bach aspired to a sense of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2020

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