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BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus. Eroica Variations (Howard)

Contrary to the blurb on the back of the CD, Leslie Howard is not the first to record Beethoven’s The...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018

JS BACH Solo Cello Suite No 1 (Dunford)

The Paris-born lutenist Thomas Dunford is known for his sensitive, imaginative continuo work in ensembles such as Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo....

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2018

Gulda: The Mono Tapes

Eighteen years after his death at the age of 69, Friedrich Gulda remains something of an iconoclast. Following his victory...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018

JS BACH Solo Violin Partitas BWV1004-1006 (Bohren)

This is not ‘period’ solo Bach – the lingering lick of vibrato on the last note of the disc’s opening...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

The Lily & the Rose

English visitors to the Musée Cluny in Paris can be surprised to see its massive collection of Nottingham alabaster from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2018

The House of the Mind

Forthright sits well on the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford. There’s an ingenuous freedom to their tone, sometimes almost...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2018

Come to Me in My Dreams:120 Years of Song from the Royal College of Music

A truly lovely programme, this, as generous as it is absorbing, devoted to songs spanning some 120 years by composers...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018

Bye Bye Berlin

Anyone familiar with the repertoire on this disc will know that it has been reflected and refracted through many artistic...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018

Årstiderne: 28 Danish Songs

Nordic humility combined with Danish plain speaking to take the country’s unique song tradition in a new direction in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

RACHMANINOV; SIBELIUS Songs (Imbrailo & Hogarth)

Making their song debut on Linn records, Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth offer a deeply satisfying two-part recital. Sibelius takes...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018

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