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LISZT Winterreise. Totentanz. Gretchen (Leonardo Pierdomenico)

Liszt’s recasting of Winterreise gets out far less often than his Schwanengesang transcriptions. To appreciate it, you first have to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2023

HANDEL 8 Great Suites for Harpsichord (Asako Ogawa)

Known primarily as a collaborative musician, Japanese-born London-based harpsichordist and pianist Asako Ogawa has recently been stepping up to the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2023

JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas (Bojan Čičić)

I have long enjoyed Bojan Čičić's exploration of lesser-known Baroque composers on Delphian such as Johann Jakob Walther (10/22), so...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2023

London Circa 1740: Handel’s Musicians

La Rêveuse here present an offbeat programme of music that might have been heard amid the Arcadian make-believe of London’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

Bridges: Works for Violin and Piano by Greek composers

Greek classical music often means Skalkottas or Theodorakis, but as the four composers represented in this enjoyable programme of violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

REBAY Complete Music for Violin and Guitar

What a fascinating composer Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) is. A student of Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory, he completed his...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2023

PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Duos

Prokofiev’s Sonata for two violins is one of his hardest nuts to crack. Written to commission in 1932, it is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023

MOZART Piano Quartets (Dego, Ridout, van der Heijden, Colli)

I found this coupling both fascinating and exasperating. Federico Colli is a pianist on a mission, and that mission is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2023

E MAYER String Quartets Vol 1

The north German composer Emilie Mayer seems to have turned to chamber music in Berlin in the mid-1850s, largely –...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2023

FELDMAN Violin and String Quartet

Morton Feldman’s late style is an enigma wrapped in a paradox. For a start, economies of scale don’t measure up....

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2023

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