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JS BACH Mass BWV233. Magnificat BWV243a

This is Gardiner’s second recording of the Christmas Cantata No 151, which dates from Bach’s golden period of cantata composition, two years...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

DEBUSSY Pelléas et Mélisande (Rattle)

This is a takeover from Berlin of a Peter Sellars platform staging of Debussy’s opera. Sellars’s directing of the cast (identical in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017

BERLIOZ Les Troyens (Nelson)

Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens has been lucky on disc. Complete recordings have been few but they’ve tended to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

Philip Martin: Once more with feeling...

Philip Martin is a fine pianist, as anyone will attest who has in their collection his invaluable account of the complete...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

Cliburn Gold 2017: Yekwon Sunwoo

The Van Cliburn International Competition does not have a great history of choosing winners. The 28-year-old Yekwon Sunwoo from South Korea...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

Jorge Bolet

As the booklet essay reminds us, Jorge Bolet’s ascent to the top was painfully slow. Throughout the late 1940s and...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 16 & 21

I’m not sure if these 2006 recordings have previously been released in the West but they provide my first exposure...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 2. Preludes. Scherzo No 2 (Tiberghien)

We may currently be thinking of Cédric Tiberghien in terms of his fabulously colourful Bartók cycle or crystalline Mozart sonatas with Alina...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

CHOPIN Nocturnes (Complete: Goerner)

It’s not surprising to find Nelson Goerner, a pianist renowned for his poetry, recording Chopin’s Nocturnes. Certainly, the impression left by...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

BRAHMS The Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 5

The qualities that have distinguished Jonathan Plowright’s Brahms series for BIS since its beginning in 2013 – keen intelligence, thoughtful interpretations...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2017

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