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Messiaen’s Musical Universe (Tom Bell)

Fugue State Films has changed the face of organ DVDs, this joining ‘Vierne’s Symphonies’ (6/21) and ‘Bach’s Missing Pages’ (9/23)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2025

Nobuyuki Tsujii: Beethoven

In 2009 the 20-year-old Noboyuki Tsujii came to international attention following his first-place victory in the Van Cliburn International Piano...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2025

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

A native of Dornbirn in the Austrian Vorarlberg, pianist Aaron Pilsan has a robust online presence as well as a...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2025

JS BACH 6 Cello Suites (William Skeen)

The unique selling point of these Bach Solo Cello Suites from US baroque cellist William Skeen (whose various hats include...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2025

Codex Rost 1660-1680

This hugely enjoyable recital anthologises a manuscript collection of instrumental music copied on the edge of the Black Forest in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2025

TELEMANN Paris Quartets, Vol 1

The six Quadri for three melody instruments and continuo that Telemann published in 1730 – but whose successful republication in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2025

SMETANA String Quartets (Zemlinsky Quartet)

Smetana’s two string quartets make uneasy bedfellows – there must be at least five performances of the magnificent First Quartet,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2025

SIERRA Chamber and Piano Music

Continuum, co-directed by pianists Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, have been playing Roberto Sierra’s music for some 40 years now....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2025

RÖNTGEN 3 Viola Sonatas (Herbert Kefer)

From everything we read about his long life, to a delightful photo in which he sits happily with Mr and...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2025

RAVAL Ricercari & Canzonette

There’s a whiff of Cervantes to the career of Sebastián Raval (d1604). As a soldier he was injured in battle...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2025

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