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JS BACH St John Passion (Rademann)

Gaechinger Cantorey, the choir and orchestra of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, opt for the 1749 revision of the St John...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (Alessandro Taverna)

My colleague Harriet Smith wrote a mixed yet accurate and fair-minded review for Alessandro Taverna’s previous live CD recorded at...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

WIDOR Organ Symphonies Vol 1 – Nos 1 & 2 (Wolfgang Rübsam)

The booklet with this first disc in the Naxos cycle of Widor organ symphonies informs us that the restored 1928...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020

WHITE Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Jonathan Powell)

The sonatas of John White – 180 and counting – rank among the largest and most varied corpuses of piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020

SOR The 19th-Century Guitar (Gianluigi Giglio)

The salon and pedagogical miniatures of the 19th-century guitarist-composers Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi et al sound...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas, Vols 3 & 4 (Llŷr Williams)

Michelle Assay’s harsh yet accurate observations concerning Llŷr Williams’s initial Schubert volumes (2/20) sometimes mirror my mixed responses to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D958 & D894 (Adam Laloum)

In my version of Utopia, all professional pianists would start their day by playing through at least one of Schubert’s...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020

RUBINSTEIN Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 (Han Chen)

As far as I know, this is only the third recording of Rubinstein’s E minor Sonata and the second of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020

GRANADOS Goyescas (Jean-Philippe Collard)

Given that Jean-Philippe Collard revels in music containing great harmonic subtlety (Fauré) and textual intricacy (Rachmaninov), it’s not surprising how...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

FEINBERG Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 (Marc-André Hamelin)

What happened to the great Russian composer-pianist tradition in the decades after the death of Scriabin and the emigration of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020

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