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RACHMANINOV. CHOPIN Sonatas for Cello and Piano

The first thing that strikes you about Denise Djokic is her sound. It’s plush and beautifully moulded. She’s at her...

Reviewed in issue 02/2014

BRITTEN Reflections

We can only speculate what might have been if Britten had met a violinist to inspire him at his peak....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2014

SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano

Frank Braley has not always received unconditionally good reviews as an accompanist – his big sound and strong musical personality...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2014

SCHUMANN Märchenbilder SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata

The Arpeggione Sonata, for a bowed guitar, is not ideally suited to either viola or cello. The viola lacks some...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas

Beethoven composed these works as ‘Sonatas for pianoforte and violin’. The common designation, ‘violin sonatas’, is acceptable, I suppose, but...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Opp 127 & 59/2

Not perfunctory but not penetrating either. The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of total...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014

TCHIAKOVSKY; ARENSKY Piano Trios

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio set the example for Russian composers, perhaps with memories of Glinka’s Trio pathétique, of the medium as...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2014

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Prince Rostislav

Vasily Petrenko rounds off his cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies for Warner (formerly EMI) Classics with this characteristically articulate and highly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014

GRIEG Piano Concerto PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 3

This unusual coupling works by contrast, the Grieg’s overt lyricism offset by the more feisty, wintry fairy-tale magic of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014

ANDERSON Fantasias. The Crazed Moon. The Discovery of Heaven

Julian Anderson (b1967) is Mark-Anthony Turnage’s successor as the London Philharmonic’s resident composer. While his own music is not untouched...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014

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