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BIBER Missa Salisburgensis. Battalia

That Biber’s massive 54-part Missa Salisburgensis of 1682 was for a long time carelessly attributed to Orazio Benevoli and dated...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015

JS BACH Birthday Cantatas

With all the trappings of secular commissions – including additional remuneration and an opportunity for luxuriant scoring – Bach wrote...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015

Four Hands

The husband-and-wife duo of Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson commence this one piano/four hand programme with Brahms’s singerless edition of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015

Ivan Moravec: Twelfth Night Recital

This set was to have been a birthday present for the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, who would have been...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas

Young Armenian pianist Varduhi Yeritsyan is a more than eloquent advocate for Scriabin, powerful and lucid even in the composer’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015

Satiesfictions

Befitting its extraordinary subject, Anne-Kathrin Peitz and Youlian Tabakov’s brilliant film about the French composer and hardline agent provocateur Erik...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015

REUBKE Piano Sonata. Sonata on the 94th Psalm

Julius Reubke was a remarkable talent whose life was cut tragically sort: he died in 1858 aged just 24. The...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015

RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit. Sonatine. Jeux d'eau

Recalling in particular Stefan Vladar’s fine early recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Sony, 4/92), I turned to the radically different...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015

MENDELSSOHN; F HENSEL Songs Without Words

Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words may have suffered from their association with the Victorian parlour (just as his oratorios became indelibly...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015

SCRIABIN; JANÁČEK Sonatas and Poems

Stephen Hough’s piano-playing always seems informed by a composer’s instincts and sensibilities, attributes immediately discernible in his new recording combining...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015

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