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BRUMEL Earthquake Mass (Schmelzer)

By my count this is the fifth complete recording of Brumel’s fabled 12-voice Earthquake Mass, so called because of the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024

BRIGGS Hail, gladdening light & other works

In July 2022 the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge travelled to Paris to record in the church of Saint-Eustache...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2024

JS BACH Mass in B Minor (McGegan)

I admire many recordings by Nicholas McGegan, particularly his volumes of Scarlatti cantatas with Arcadian Academy (Conifer, 6/97) and his...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2024

Passage secret: Bizet, Debussy, Faure, Ravel, Aubert

Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle are a formidably well-equipped duo whose acquaintance I first made back in 2017 with their...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024

From Handel’s Home: The Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House (Julian Perkins)

When the Handel (now Handel Hendrix) House opened in 2001, it could make use of only the top floors of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024

YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Sergey Khachatryan)

The brilliant Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan treats us to yet another superb set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, vibrant, forceful,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2024

WAGNER 'Famous Opera Scenes' (Nikolai Lugansky)

Listen to Josef Hofmann’s 1923 recording of Louis Brassin’s transcription of Wagner’s Magic Fire Music and you’ll hear one of...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024

SORABJI Toccata Terza (Abel Sánchez-Aguilera)

Composed in 1955, the manuscript of Sorabji’s two-hour-plus Toccata terza had been missing for decades when it was rediscovered in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024

RAVEL Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol 1 (Vincent Larderet)

Here is the first of four planned discs devoted to Ravel’s piano works that promises to be painstakingly comprehensive, with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024

RACHMANINOV Piano Duos (Babayan; Trifonov)

This album of Rachmaninov’s two-piano music offers a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness. Add to...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2024

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