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Review of BERNARDI Lux Aeterna. Ein Salzburger Requiem

BERNARDI Lux Aeterna. Ein Salzburger Requiem

Stefano Bernardi (c1577-1637) held eminent musical posts in his native Verona but for about a decade he was the first...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020

Review of BEETHOVEN Songs (Matthias Goerne)

BEETHOVEN Songs (Matthias Goerne)

With so many detractors, Beethoven Lieder are bound to acquire revisionist defenders, the latest being Matthias Goerne, whose status among...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2020

Review of JS BACH St John Passion (Rademann)

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

Review of Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (Alessandro Taverna)

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

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

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

Review of WHITE Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Jonathan Powell)

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

Review of SOR The 19th-Century Guitar (Gianluigi Giglio)

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

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

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

Review of SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D958 & D894 (Adam Laloum)

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

Review of RUBINSTEIN Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 (Han Chen)

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


 

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