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BLACKFORD Mirror of Perfection. Vision of A Garden

Richard Blackford definitely has the knack of writing audience-friendly works with singable lines appealing to amateur and professional performers alike....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

BEACH; STANFORD; WOOD 'The Canticle of the Sun'

This splendid album provides a showcase for the talents of 21 singers aged between 18 and 28 brought together for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2022

Joel von Lerber: Légende

Like a mythical harp-playing bard, Joel von Lerber too is a teller of legends. But such is the Berlin-based Swiss...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2022

Hommage à J. S. B. (Jonian Ilias Kadesha)

An ingenious sequence this, some pieces straying further from a Bachian template than others (Kurtág’s gnomic and texturally varied Signs,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022

Processional: Organ music by Dom Sebastian Wolff (Richard Lea)

Ad Fontes, perhaps the first record label spawned by a monastery, has produced some gems since its inception in 2019,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022

VASKS Piano Works (Reinis Zariņš)

This generous album may not contain all of Vasks’s solo piano music (there are three further works omitted here) but,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

TAN DUN Piano Music (Ralph van Raat)

Tan Dun’s numerous large-scale dramatic and multimedia projects have rather overshadowed the instrumental genres in his sizeable output, making this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022

SCARLATTI Sonatas (Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy)

Contrasts of mood together with unified relationships of tempo and key signature characterise one the most intelligently programmed and distinctively...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022

MOZART Piano Sonatas, Vol 5 (Peter Donohoe)

Critical reaction in these pages to Peter Donohoe’s solo Mozart has been mixed. David Threasher enjoyed Vols 1 and 2,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022

HAYDN Piano Sonatas, Vol 11 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

There’s my next Christmas present sorted, then: the box of all 11 volumes of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Haydn survey, please...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2022

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