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MONDONVILLE Grands Motets

Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, a violinist and composer prominent in Parisian musical life in the mid-18th century, was among the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2016

CARON Twilight of the Middle Ages

Born in Amiens and named after his town’s patron saint, Firminus Caron (c1440-after 1480) was a contemporary of Johannes Tinctoris...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2016

Buxtehude and his Circle

Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices explore the circle of church organists and composers in northern Germany and the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016

Katt - Organ Works

Each generation produces at least one organist who sets out to make the instrument acceptable to a new audience through...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2016

Vadym Kholodenko: Piano

Vadym Kholodenko begins this decidedly unhackneyed programme with what may be the finest recording of Balakirev’s Sonata No 2 since...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons

Coming soon after Freddy Kempf’s identical coupling, Jonas Vitaud’s recording is altogether less diffident. He speaks of the Grande Sonate...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2016

MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words

Few pieces conjure up more immediately and vividly the comfortable middle-class world of the 1840s than Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

HESKETH Horae (Pro Clara)

The CD of Kenneth Hesketh’s instrumental compositions released three years ago (NMC, 7/13) offered a well-balanced sequence of colourful musical...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2016

GRANADOS Goyescas MOMPOU Variations sur un Theme de Chopin

Granados’s Goyescas is more than a suite of piano pieces: it’s a road trip where one encounters a diverse succession...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016

FELDMAN Palais de Mari CRUMB A Little Suite for Christmas

I can’t imagine Morton Feldman, cantankerous curmudgeon that he was, would have been thrilled at the prospect of having his...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2016

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