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JS BACH Cantatas BWV 45 & 198; Motet BWV 118

Philippe Herreweghe’s corpus of cantatas from Virgin, Harmonia Mundi and now PHI constitutes one of the most elegant and satisfying...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2021

Salisbury Meditation (John Challenger)

With the majority of our fine organs having been sadly silenced for so many months, it was heartening to see...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2021

YSAŸE Sonatas for solo violin (James Ehnes)

Lockdown may not have served many practical purposes but in musical terms this superb home-recorded set of Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021

VIERNE Complete Organ Symphonies (Roger Sayer)

Fugue State Films continues to enrich the niche organ DVD market with its splendid crowd-funded productions. Hot on the heels...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2021

PAGANINI Caprices (Alina Ibragimova)

In an interesting appendage to the main booklet note (an excellent essay on the Caprices by Jeremy Nicholas that has...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Vol 4 (Peter Donohoe)

Great music can take many different interpretations. But there are times when a distinguished artist seems to have wandered into...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

MENDELSSOHN Complete Piano Music, Vol 5 (Howard Shelley)

Howard Shelley has been on a winning streak with his Mendelssohn odyssey and the penultimate volume lives up to previous...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2021

FRANCK Trois Pieces. Trois Chorals (Pétur Sakari)

When it comes to the organ music of César Franck, we are spoilt for choice; there is not so much...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2021

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Aaron Pilsan)

There are myriad good things to say about this album. Take the crystalline execution of the Fugue in D, BWV850:...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2021

JS BACH 'Nostalghia' (Francesco Piemontesi) 'Spira, spera' Transcriptions (Emmanuel Despax)

The best piece of advice I ever got when starting out as a broadcaster was from the great Michael Oliver,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2021

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