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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Review - ‘Concertos without Orchestra’ (Salih Can Gevrek)

Friday, August 30, 2024

| International Piano

He prompts your awareness in Schumann’s tortuous F minor Sonata of Clara Schumann’s fears for her husband’s genius, for a mind and imagination that soared gloriously but dangerously close to the edge

Review - Auralic Vega S1

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Friday, September 6, 2024

| Gramophone

This compact network player brings all the power and performance of the company’s pricier hardware in a convenient – and upgradable – form

Debussy: early and late piano pieces (Steven Osborne)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Osborne’s performances are of a superfine mastery

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Anna Fedorova)

Review

Sunday, October 2, 2022

| International Piano

Fedorova is undoubtedly a fine performer but her playing has a certain reticence about it

Transcriptions (Angelo Villani)

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

It is Villani's melodic touch, projection and careful weighting of chords that gets to the music's core

Dance! – Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé

Review

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| International Piano

These are clear, crafted performances in high quality sound captured by Adaq Khan at London's Menuhin Hall

Sergei Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Review

Friday, July 1, 2022

| Choir and Organ

It's unlikely any forthcoming recordings will top this one

Solemn Notes of Sweetest Sound – Sacred music for upper voices and organ from the Charity Institutions for girls and boys in Georgian London

Review

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Choir and Organ

Solemn Notes of Sweetest Sound is a fascinating collection of ten works by men and women composers drawn from publications originally issued by the charity institutions of London throughout the period 1729-1804