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KAPSBERGER Intavolatura di chitarone (Jonas Nordberg)

In his Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni (1650), that wildly imaginative polymath Athanasius Kircher all but proclaims...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019

Bella incognita: The imagination of Marco dall'Aquila (Henning)

Suggestion trumps explicitness. Think Fragonard’s L’escarpolette or Herrick’s ‘A sweet disorder in the dress / Kindles in clothes a wantonness’....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019

CZERNY Piano Works (Zhao. Lessing)

The ‘invention’ of the solo recital is generally credited to Liszt on the basis of his 1839 letter, written from...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

Chopin; Schumann; Scriabin (Xue-Hong; Chang; Yunjie)

These three new discs from Accentus are the fruits of a partnership with Académie France-Chine, launched in 2018 by pianist...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

Mariam Batsashvili: Chopin and Liszt

Probably the most attractive part of Mariam Batsashvili’s latest offering is the Liszt Six Polish Songs after Chopin. These arrangements...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2019

BEETHOVEN; RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas (Pogorelich)

I’ve rarely encountered such an ugly-sounding piano release. While the engineering admirably captures Ivo Pogorelich’s wide dynamic scope, his sonority...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

JS BACH Organ Works Vol 3 (Suzuki)

If Masaaki Suzuki’s sacred cantata series was necessarily chronological, clearly evident in this new journey – on the basis of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2019

Matthew Zalkind: Music for Solo Cello

By choosing two of the most demanding works in the solo cello repertory for his recording debut, Matthew Zalkind seems...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019

South of the Circle (Siggi String Quartet)

So far as I am aware, the only previous outing on disc by the Siggi Quartet (formed in 2012) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

Miloš Karadaglić: The Sound of Silence

The guitar is a two-headed beast. In its civilised, classical form it is the instrument of the concert hall. Yet...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019

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