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HANCOCK Choral and Organ Music

This exceedingly well-filled disc stands as a resounding testimonial to an important American composer of Episcopalian/Anglican choral music, recorded in...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2021

COUPERIN Leçons de ténèbres (Château de Versailles Spectacles)

Recordings of Couperin’s superb Leçons de Ténèbres, setting words from the Lamentations, usually fall into one of two categories: churchy...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2021

Jean Rondeau: Melancholy Grace

In September 1878 Brahms wrote to the conductor Bernhard Scholz: ‘I am coming with a large beard! Prepare your wife...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021

Justin Taylor: La famille Rameau

The prodigiously talented Franco-American harpsichordist Justin Taylor follows a critically acclaimed earlier album devoted to the Forqueray family (11/16) with...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2021

Craig Ogden in Concert

It’s been far too long since I last heard my fellow West Australian Craig Odgen live in concert. So this...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2021

VLADIGEROV Exotic preludes & Impressions (Nadejda Vlaeva)

Slowly but surely, the great Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov’s sizeable output of piano works is finally getting serious attention on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2021

MEDTNER Piano works, Vol 1 (Frank Huang)

Frank Huang first caught my attention through his 2017 Centaur release devoted to the jazzily inventive piano music of Jack...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2021

HAYDN Piano Sonatas, Vol 2 (Markus Becker)

Previously lauded for his 12-disc Reger survey (Thorofon, A/02), Markus Becker issued his first Haydn album four years ago. Now...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2021

FERNEYHOUGH Complete Piano Music 1965-2018 (Ian Pace)

In his thought-provoking booklet essay, Ian Pace considers the notational complexity of Brian Ferneyhough’s scores as being less a directive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021

VAN EYCK Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (François Lazarevitch)

Jacob van Eyck’s two volumes of Der Fluyten Lust-hof (1640s) apparently count as the largest-ever collection of music for a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021

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