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JS BACH Toccatas (Esfahani)

The element most characteristic of the toccata – from the earliest lute and keyboard pieces in 16th-century Italy to more...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019

JS BACH Lute Suites (Franz Halász)

Franz Halász does something interesting here. Well, of course he does – you’ve heard his Henze, Berio and Takemitsu …...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2019

Vivi Vassileva: Singin' Rhythm

‘Singin’ Rhythm’ finds multi-percussionist Vivi Vassileva pursuing all directions at once, from marimba soloist to bandleader, in a cross-section of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

Palimpsest

Clarinet and marimba make an odd couple. Their timbres are almost diametric opposites – one warm and creamy, the other...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019

Folk Tales: British Cello and Piano Miniatures

At the heart of this recording of British post-Romantic cello miniatures is an exploration of music from that wonderfully fertile...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2019

MOZART Violin Sonatas (Mi-Sa Yang)

Mi-Sa Yang and Jonas Vitaud have hopped over Mozart’s childhood piano and violin sonatas and gone straight for the gold...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019

The Jupiter Project

David Owen Norris plays a gloriously resonant Broadwood and his colleagues play appropriate 18th- (or 17th-) century instruments. The music...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019

MOLIQUE Piano Trios Opp 27 & 52

Bernhard Molique (1803-69) is one of those composers who, revered and highly respected in their time, have slipped between the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019

HOLLIGER; KURTÁG Zwiegespräche

This disc celebrates the 80th birthday of Heinz Holliger, and although it explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2019

FOX Paths (Goldfield Ensemble)

Erika Fox – like Alexander Goehr, four years her senior – came to England with her family as a small...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2019

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