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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 2, 20, 17 & 30 (Jonathan Biss)

We reach the seventh volume of Jonathan Biss’s thought-provoking Beethoven sonata cycle. The pieces on this disc seem to suit...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018

ESCAICH 6 Etudes-Chorales

Four Bach works alternate with five of Thomas Ospital’s own improvisations and a set of six Études-Chorals by Thierry Escaich....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018

Shadow Etchings: New Music for Flute

Orlando Cela brings an adventurer’s spirit to ‘Shadow Etchings’, his disc of new music for flute. Each work requires the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2018

Final Answer

Most of the works on the newest release from the San Francisco Girls Chorus are receiving their first recordings, which...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2018

North Texas Wind Symphony: Contact. Taylor Made

The North Texas Wind Symphony are nothing if not industrious, with a recording history going back to the late 1980s....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

ROSSÉ Métissage: Music for Saxophone and Piano

Adam Estes’s tribute to Francois Rossé, who studied with Messiaen and collaborates with saxophone great Jean-Marie Londeix, is a brilliant...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018

RANJBARAN; TICHELI; WARNAAR Wind Concertos

As 21st-century wind concertos go, this is as entertaining as it gets. I have not encountered the music of Frank...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018

FEIGIN Piano Works

Sara Feigin (1928-2011) pursued a multifaceted career as pianist, composer and educator, first in her native Latvia and subsequently in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018

CORRETTE Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin Op 25

While Michel Corrette’s methods and writings rank alongside those by Geminiani, CPE Bach, Quantz and Tartini, fate has been less...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018

BAXTER Ask the Moon

There are many lovely things on this recording of songs by Garth Baxter about loss and memory, and of marrying...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018

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