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Janne Mertanen: 'Chopin'

When seemingly unusual details emerge from an interpretation of a thrice-familiar work, it’s often because the performer is taking certain...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2024

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Masato Suzuki)

There is nothing extravagant, idiosyncratic or exceptional about this recording except its infallible good taste. Harpsichordist Masato Suzuki, who serves...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2024

JS BACH Keyboard Partitas (Martin Helmchen)

It is still relatively rare these days for established mainstream pianists to fall for an old instrument hook, line and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2024

Rachel Podger: The Muses Restor’d

Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones; sonatas, suites, concerts, grounds and popular tunes … this exploration...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024

Love Music

‘O sink upon us, night of love …’ Well, ‘Love Music’ is the title of this album from pianist Yeol...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024

The Golden Age of Hollywood: Concert Works for Violin and Piano

‘The Golden Age of Hollywood’: it’s an attractive idea for a recital, made even more interesting by the fact that...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024

WATKINS Chamber Music and Works for String Orchestra

Just short of his half-century, Huw Watkins has long been active as both composer and pianist, and on disc an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 9 & 15 (Carducci Quartet)

The third volume of the Carducci Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle pairs two of the mightiest of the 15. Both the five-movement...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024

SCHUMANN; TANEYEV Piano Quintets

I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024

MANZIARLY Chamber Works

Born in Kharkiv, trained in France and Switzerland, spiritually inspired in India and harboured by the United States, Marcelle de...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024

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