Hortus
Brahms: Forte ma dolce (Hortus)
(Déjà Review) Unlikely to be superseded any time soon [CB]
Wurmser: Piano Works (Hortus)
A near-forgotten man of French music reappears with a piano retrospective [JW]
Schoenberg: L’arrangeur arrangé (Hortus)
Interesting versions for the committed Schoenbergian [SB]
Beach: Piano Music (Hortus)
Fichet fully conveys the heart and intensity of these seductive scores [SG]
Liszt: Via Crucis (Hortus)
(Déjà Review) Highly dynamic and powerful performances, extremely well-recorded in stunning sound [PSh]
JS Bach: Bach à Leipzig (Hortus)
An unusual and thoughtful recital of Bach’s later organ music [MSt]
Balakirev: Islamey (Hortus)
Balakirev’s mostly little-known piano music, beautifully performed and recorded [EJW]
de Rore: Il divino (Hortus)
Madrigals and instrumental works with ornamentation and divisions as they may have been heard five hundred years ago [GH]
Le Voyage en Orient (Hortus)
A well executed esoteric program, let down by the lack of useful documentation for the casual listener [MP]