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JS BACH St John Passion (McGegan)

Next year is the tercentenary of the first performance of Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday 1724, so expect...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Reize)

The questionable durability of Bach recordings from the Thomanerchor Leipzig is an interesting phenomenon. While the choir has always carried...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Judas - Arias and Recitatives (Benedikt Kristjansson)

Continuum is ‘a pool of instrumentalists and singers that [director and harpsichordist Elina Albach] can rely on, and that enables...

Reviewed in issue 10/2023

HAYDN 48 Piano Sonatas (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

Having recorded complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert sonata cycles, perhaps it was just a matter of time until Daniel-Ben Pienaar...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023

Jonas Frølund: Solo Alone and More

Here’s a novelty: an album of solo clarinet works, written – or arranged – for a variety of instruments and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum 2022

The annual disc of highlights from the previous year’s Festival of Piano Music Rarities from Husum has, as usual, arrived...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023

LISZT Winterreise. Totentanz. Gretchen (Leonardo Pierdomenico)

Liszt’s recasting of Winterreise gets out far less often than his Schwanengesang transcriptions. To appreciate it, you first have to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2023

HANDEL 8 Great Suites for Harpsichord (Asako Ogawa)

Known primarily as a collaborative musician, Japanese-born London-based harpsichordist and pianist Asako Ogawa has recently been stepping up to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Bojan Čičić)

I have long enjoyed Bojan Čičić's exploration of lesser-known Baroque composers on Delphian such as Johann Jakob Walther (10/22), so...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2023

London Circa 1740: Handel’s Musicians

La Rêveuse here present an offbeat programme of music that might have been heard amid the Arcadian make-believe of London’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

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