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BRAHMS Cello Sonatas (Yu Kosuge)

We’re so accustomed these days to talking about Brahms’s two ‘cello sonatas’ that it’s rarely if ever mentioned that Brahms...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2023

CPE BACH Violin Sonatas (Rachel Podger)

CPE Bach’s life spanned three-quarters of the 18th century – that period from the dying days of the Baroque, its...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023

Songs for our Times

With all the talk in recent years about increasing the representation of Black and Latin artists in classical music, it...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2023

Overtures From Finland

The connection between nine of the 10 works here is to show that Sibelius did not emerge from or operate...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023

Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana

A few years ago the horn player Sarah Willis fell in love with the music and culture of Cuba. This...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2023

Bacchanale: Saint-Saëns et la Méditerranée

Camille Saint-Saëns certainly caught the travel bug. The composer was an intrepid tourist and often wintered in warmer climes: Italy,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5. Romeo and Juliet (Shokhakimov)

Young Uzbek conductor Aziz Shokhakimov became music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg in 2021. This is their first...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023

Martin Owen Plays Strauss, Schumann & Weber

Is Schumann’s Koncertstück for four horns the most life-affirming work in the repertoire? Perhaps not. But as you’re listening to...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Symphonies 8 & 9 (Janowski)

Marek Janowski and his Dresdeners immediately score over virtually all the competition by offering the Unfinished and Ninth on a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos. Paganini Rhapsody (Yuja Wang)

Make no mistake, this is a classy release. Hardly surprising that, given the artists involved, but I headline the cliché...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023

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