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BERLIOZ Requiem (Pappano)

Mixed blessings from this latest attempt to represent Berlioz’s ‘Great Mass’ effectively on disc. Pappano – who brought ‘his’ choir...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2022

Víkingur Ólafsson: From Afar

This is one of those albums that should catch you in the right mood and setting. If it doesn’t, then...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2022

VAN DIEREN Complete Music For Piano Solo (Christopher Guild)

That Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) did not come into his own during the CD era is a little surprising. His...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022

TELEMANN Fantasias for solo violin (Alina Ibragimova)

Alina Ibragimova brings us an excellent, eloquent interpretation of Telemann’s Fantasias for solo violin. The sound of Henry Wood Hall...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022

SZYMANOWSKI Piano Works (Krystian Zimerman)

The match-up of a (if not the) leading Polish pianist with a (if not the) leading 20th-century Polish composer is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2022

SCHUBERT Works for Solo Piano, Vol 6 (Barry Douglas)

Barry Douglas’s traversal of Schubert’s piano music has now reached the sixth instalment with the largest and last of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2022

PIPKOV Complete Piano Music, Vol 1 (Dobromir Tsenov)

Lyubomir Pipkov (1904-74) belongs to what is called the ‘Second Generation’ of Bulgarian composers, Pancho Vladigerov undoubtedly being the best...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022

MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas (Robert Levin)

Robert Levin’s lifetime of immersion in the music of Mozart comes to fruition in this release, the complete piano sonatas,...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2022

Jean-Baptiste Doulcet: Un Monde Fantastique

It’s quite the act of confidence to start off your debut recording with the Gounod/Liszt Faust Waltz. True, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022

ELGAR Organ Sonatas. Vesper Voluntaries. Nimrod (Tom Winpenny)

Tom Winpenny’s new recording joins a fairly crowded field of excellent surveys of Elgar’s organ music. For several years Thomas...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2022

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