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HANDEL Suites pour clavecin (Pierre Hantai)

The booklet note for this release points out some interesting things about the trajectory of Handel’s ‘Eight Great’ harpsichord suites...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 8 'Appassionata' (Martin Roscoe)

With Vol 8, Martin Roscoe comes within spitting distance of completing his Beethoven sonata cycle; the ninth and final instalment...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

DVORAK, BARBER, COPLAND 'From the New World' (Hansjorg Albrecht)

The argument behind Hansjörg Albrecht’s latest release of transcriptions of famous orchestral works, which he dedicates to the memory of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2021

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Piotr Anderszewski)

Piotr Anderszewski here poses a most intriguing question: what happens when you take a group of 12 Preludes and Fugues...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2021

Dear Mademoiselle - A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) taught so many composers and musicians that a list of her pupils reads like a who’s who...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

STANFORD String Quintets & Intermezzi

If I might indulge myself for a moment, I remember the first time I encountered Stanford’s First String Quintet –...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

SIMAKU 'Con-ri-sonanza'

The music of Albanian-born, York-based composer Thomas Simaku (b1958) is something of a well-kept secret, though two discs of his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021

Calidore String Quartet: Babel

Robert Schumann, the American Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winner Caroline Shaw and Shostakovich may not seem obvious string quartet bedfellows,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

SAINT-SAËNS Sonatas & Trio

Bertrand Chamayou, whose performances of Saint-Saëns’s Second and Fifth Piano Concertos with the French National Orchestra and Emmanuel Krivine won...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2021

NONO La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura

Nono’s late style brings music to the verge of silence. The dynamic strays above pianissimo only occasionally. Pitch material is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 02/2021

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