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BRUCKNER Latin Motets (Klava)

Sigvards Kļava’s latest recording with the Latvian Radio Choir features not only first-rate performances of some of Bruckner’s better-known motets...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

Vanitas: Schubert, Beethoven & Rihm

We’ve seen Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte appear in a variety of couplings over the past year but this is...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2021

AYRES Sacred Music

Although very much embedded in the UK choral scene, British composer Paul Ayres writes a lot for American ensembles, and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021

Stephen Hough: Vida Breve

To call this a concept album would be to diminish its power and timeliness. It is both a meditation on...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2021

Pioneers: Piano works by Female Composers

In this collection of 21 brief works, there is no great music, a lot of good music and a few...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021

Christian-Pierre La Marca: Cello 360

Whoever came up with ‘Cello 360’ as the title for Christian-Pierre La Marca’s first album for Naïve deserves a pay...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2021

Vanessa Benelli Mosell: Casta Diva

Looking back through the Gramophone archive, I see that this gifted Italian pianist (b1987) has been appearing on and off...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021

REICHA L'art de varier (Ivan Ilić)

Whether or not Antoine Reicha’s all-but-unknown L’art de varier, Op 57 (composed between 1802 and 1803) represents the proverbial missing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives. Piano Sonata No 8 (Nicholas Angelich)

Erato’s booklet essay quotes Poulenc’s admiring description of Prokofiev at the piano, which notes that ‘the tempo never, never varied’....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2021

LISZT Années de pèlerinage (Michele Campanella)

Throughout his career, Michele Campanella, the Neapolitan pianist now in his 74th year, has been identified with the music of...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2021

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