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Caspar Vos: Restart

There could hardly be more contrast between Caspar Vos’s first two solo discs: from the dense forests of Medtner (6/18)...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2019

MESSIAEN Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus (Helmchen)

What can you do to prepare for Messiaen’s Vingt Regards? Martin Helmchen has largely dedicated himself to the classic Austrian-German...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2019

LISZT; LYAPUNOV Transcendental Studies (Konstantin Scherbakov)

Scherbakov is a pianist I have long admired, a superb technician with a wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire. His more than...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2019

LISZT Transcriptions from Opera by Auber and Verdi (Wai Yin Wong)

When faced with a body of work as prodigious as Liszt’s piano music, a lexicographic approach must be tempting. In...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2019

FRESCOBALDI Toccaate e Partite d'intavolatura di cimbalo libro primo (Rousset)

Frescobaldi’s first book of Toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo (1615) was published in Rome during his first stint as...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019

JS BACH Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Céline Frisch)

With Book 2, Céline Frisch completes her traversal of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, maintaining the stylishly high standards and cultivated musicianship...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019

JS BACH Complete Works for Keyboard Vol 2 (Benjamin Alard)

In 1700, the 15-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach left behind his native Thuringia and travelled to Luneberg, in the north of...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2019

CPE BACH Abschied (Vittorio Forte)

For his new Odradek recording, the Calabrian pianist Vittorio Forte has chosen a programme of fantasies, rondos and variations written...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2019

Out of Italy

One of the many pleasures of this recording of Italian music for Baroque cello is hearing Beiliang Zhu play student/teacher...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2019

London, Circa 1700: Purcell & his Generation (La Rêveuse)

To my ears there’s a subtle French perfume lingering over the opening to this Restoration London-themed programme from La Rêveuse;...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2019

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