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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21 (David Deveau)

'Going all over the place, yet going nowhere.’ No, that’s not an obscure Bob Dylan lyric but rather my reaction...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023

MOZART Complete Piano Sonatas (Yeol Eum Son)

Another month, another Mozart sonata cycle, or so it seems. Following on from Mao Fujita’s largely impressive cycle, here’s one...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2023

Toyohiko Satoh: La Rhetorique Des Dieux

Dipping into and across veteran Japanese lutenist Toyohiko Satoh’s recorded catalogue, you can’t help but think that for him the...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023

BORTKIEWICZ A Letter (Zhenni Li-Cohen)

On this release, up-and-coming Zhenni Li Cohen sets herself a substantial challenge. To begin with, Ukrainian-born Sergei Bortkiewicz is a...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2023

JS BACH Das Wohltemperierte Clavier (Wolfgang Rübsam)

Organist, harpsichordist and sometimes pianist Wolfgang Rübsam here performs Bach’s monumental Das woltemperirte Clavier on a single-manual gut-strung Lautenwerk or...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023

JS BACH Partitas Nos 1, 5 & 6 (Nils Anders Mortensen)

This is Bach in private mode, intimate, exploratory and rarely demonstrative. Nils Anders Mortensen recorded this first set of three...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2023

Daniel Lozakovich: Spirits

This album is rather jewel-like: small but perfectly formed. Daniel Lozakovich’s playing is shimmering and stylish, offering a set of...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2023

Maria Ioudenitch: Songbird

Unlike most young violinists who devote their debut CDs to flashy repertoire, Maria Ioudenitch puts forth the proposition that the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023

1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli & Pisendel

1723. Are you racking your brains as to what exactly happened 300 years ago that was worthy of an album-shaped...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023

MOZART; WIDMANN Clarinet Quintets

Jörg Widmann has performed Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Hagen Quartet ‘countless times’, according to the booklet. In 2009 the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023

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