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JS BACH Motets (Pichon)

A whole generation has elapsed since René Jacobs’s much-admired disc of Bach motets (Harmonia Mundi, 7/97), and even its high...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

JS BACH St John Passion (Suzuki)

When Bach Collegium Japan performed the St John Passion in London early on in their spring 2020 European tour –...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW20

Lament: Works by Hagen, Asheim and Nordheim

Where might the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir head after Berio’s Coro, pondered Gramophone’s review of the ensemble’s last recording (6/20). The...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW20

SCARLATTI The Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 6 (Carlo Grante)

Domenico Scarlatti stands in relation to his great Baroque era contemporaries Bach and Handel much as Chopin did to peers...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

Bertrand Chamayou: Good Night!

Bertrand Chamayou begins the essay to his new disc of berceuses and lullabies with the admission ‘I’m a night owl’....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20

Sarah Beth Briggs: The Austrian Connection

To my ears, Haydn’s ‘Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser’ Variations lose something in translation en route between the original string...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20

ZIMMERMANN Complete works for piano (Eduardo Fernández)

Recent anniversaries have undoubtedly raised the profile of Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70). Stopping short of full maturity, his solo piano...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW20

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas (William Youn)

William Youn first made an impression on me with his Mozart sonatas for Oehms; and in 2018 I much enjoyed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20

MOSCHELES Complete Piano Sonatas (Michele Bolla)

‘As a pianoforte player,’ the first edition of Grove’s Dictionary tells us, ‘Moscheles was distinguished by a crisp and incisive...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20

MACMILLAN Organ Works (Stephen Farr)

This handsome new release brings together all of James MacMillan’s organ music to date, spanning some 36 years of composition...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020

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