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HAMILTON Joy

Ergodos has in recent years become an essential platform for new music. An independent label founded by the Irish composers...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2020

Those Blue Remembered Hills

Caught at the junction of folk-earthiness and blue remembered sentiment, Ivor Gurney’s music has dated more markedly than that of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020

FINNISSY Pious Anthems & Voluntaries

This project originates in a residency of several years the composer undertook at St John’s College, Cambridge. At its heart...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2020

The Secret Fauré, Vol 3: Sacred Vocal Works

Ivor Bolton’s survey of unfamiliar and familiar Fauré examines his sacred music for its third instalment, placing the Requiem and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Secular Vocal Works (Ensemble Tamanial)

A cappella quartets and quintets generally belong to the world of Byrd and the barbershop. Mozart’s vocal canons are like...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

Vasco Dantas: Poetic Scenes For Piano

What an interesting and original idea for Vasco Dantas to juxtapose Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Carl Reinecke’s virtually unknown Schumann song transcriptions...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2020

Mahan Esfahani: Musique?

Doth Mahan Esfahani protest too much? Here we have a cohesive, effective, taut programme of 20th-century harpsichord works that builds...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020

Johan Smith: Guitar Laureate

On paper, the 2019 GFA Competition winner Johan Smith’s recital programme looks unremarkable: a classic mix of old and new,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2020

RACHMANINOV Préludes, Études-Tableaux, Moments Musicaux (Sergei Babayan)

The Armenian artist Sergei Babayan is perhaps best known as Daniil Trifonov’s sometime teacher and mentor. It is presumably thanks...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2020

PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 6, Visions fugutives (Vadym Kholodenko)

Following the five concertos (3/16, 4/19), which amply demonstrated Vadym Kholodenko’s Prokofievian credentials, the still youngish Ukrainian now moves to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2020

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