Gounod (& Gounod/Liszt) piano works
For all he attention on Faust and his Bach arrangement, Ave Maria, the music of Gounod remains elaivly unexplored. This is a welcome disc, therefore. Iroically, I begins with just that Ave Maria in its […]
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For John Cage: the Zen-like composed silence of late Feldman
The late music of Moton Feldman (1926-87) is like no other. It kind of speaks for itself (perhaps that’s why thee are no booklet notes here!): or does it kind of “unspeak”?. Although there ae […]
Hamamatsu winner Manami Suzuki at King’s Place
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition peasants Manami Suzuki King’s Place, London, 23.01.2026 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (WTC Book II) Szymanowski Metopy, Op. […]
Hamematsu winner Manami Suzuki at King’s Place
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition peasants Manami Suzuki King’s Place, London, 23.01.2026 Haydn Piano Sonata in G, Hob. XVI:6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (WTC Book II) Szymanowski Metopy, Op. […]
Gluck: Rare Arie d’opera on Tactus
This disc traces Gluck’s operatic activity for the years 1743-45, and has a his real musicological purpose. Previously (reviewing for Fanfare), I was less than taken by Elena de Simone’s Tactus disc of arias by […]
Another Wigmore triumph: Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber in Schubert
Schubert Lieder Christian Gerhaher (baritone); Gerold Huber (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.1.2026 Die abgeblühte Linde, D 514 (?1817). Der Jûngling an der Quelle, D 300 (c. 1817). Die blinde Knabe, D 833 (1825). Liane, D 298 (1815). Die Unglûchliche, D 713 (1821). Von Mitleiden […]
Yoav Levanon’s cinematic Liszt: the Transcendental Etudes
We heard Yoav Lavanon a the Gstaad Festival in 2023: the report is here. He gave a recital in Verbier, too, in 2019: here’s a video he made about that particular experience: Levanon styles himself […]
Staged Brahms in Paris: Director David Bobée’s response to Deutsches Requiem
Stagings of Bach Passions are, if not the norm, certainly not unknown; and Insula showed how effective known music with projection can be in Mat Collishaw’s Sky Burial, a film response to Fauré’s Requiem. Insula’s Brahms […]
Cycle de berceuses: Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy at Wigmore Hall
This was recital progamming of the very highest level, the first half a cycle of lullabies; the second a celehration of the female creatrix in Her various forms. It all opened with a fisher […]
Orchestral Anthems (# 2)
Anglican repertoire is the subject of this disc, a sequence of English anthems both rousing and touching. The Choir of Merton College, Oxford enter in absolutely full voice of Elgar’s”Light out of darkness” (from the […]
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