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MESSIAEN La Nativité du Seigneur. Offrande au Saint-Sacrement

There is no shortage of excellent recordings of Messiaen’s second substantial organ work, La Nativité du Seigneur, of 1935. The...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2017

MATTHEWS Music for Solo Violin Vol 2

I’ve never met David Matthews, but he appears to be a generous soul. There’s hardly a piece in this collection...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017

LISZT Life, Love & Afterlife

Liszt’s peripatetic life seems to invite travelogue programming. Dejan Lazic´’s new Onyx CD touches on several places that inspired important...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017

LISZT Complete Piano Music, Vol 46 – Berlioz Transcriptions

Naxos’s intrepid march through all Liszt’s piano music, begun 20 years ago, has now reached Vol 46. If Leslie Howard’s...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017

DEBUSSY Images RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit

Alessandro Taverna chooses to play up the contrasts between Debussy and Ravel in this recital, with the latter at his...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017

The Enlightenment Influence

Organists devising a chronological programme invariably come unstuck in the period between Bach and Mendelssohn. The orchestral symphony, the string...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017

Heatwave

The title ‘Heatwave’ might well conjure rather a different music from that for flute, oboe and piano, though this disc...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017

Rostropovich Live at the 1961 Aldeburgh Music Festival

As a felicitous appendix to the compendious boxes from DG and Warner (5/17), this Testament release of Rostropovich in his...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017

ZELENKA Six Sonatas, ZWV181

Zelenka’s six long and luxurious trio sonatas for oboes, bassoon and continuo were first brought into modern-day light in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2017

Akoka: Reframing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

If the title and indeed often unearthly content of Messiaen’s best-known chamber work can lead us to listen to it...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017

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