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GRIEG The Cello Works - Transcriptions and Songs

Grieg composed his Cello Sonata for his brother John. Does the music’s feverishness reflect their complicated relationship? That’s the question...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022

GÁL Piano Quartet. Suite. Concertino. Impromptu

One of the most delightful and insightful music books on the Viennese Classical tradition is Hans Gál’s Franz Schubert and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022

BRAHMS; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Gautier Capuçon)

One of the features of the Verbier Festival is its throwing together of artists who may never have performed together...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022

BRAHMS; FUCHS; HERZOGENBERG 'The Brahms Connection'

I was happy to bump into Robert Fuchs’s First Sonata (1878) again, having been charmed by its many felicities on...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022

Migration

This generously filled album brings together four works by contemporary American composers either scored or adapted for wind ensemble. Adam...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022

WEINBERG Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 (Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla)

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s follow-up to her Gramophone Award-winning recording of Weinberg’s Second and 21st Symphonies (6/19) couples two of his less...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2022

VIVALDI Violin Concertos (Julien Chauvin)

Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge bring us the latest in their Vivaldi Edition with Naïve, a recording...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 5, 6 & 7 (Hughes)

The final instalment in Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle features the composer’s last three symphonies, and very impressive performances they...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4 & 11 (Rozhdestvensky)

I don’t think anybody would deny that there were times when Gennady Rozhdestvensky wore his craft so lightly, so casually,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 and 9 (Savall)

Schubert can hardly be thought to have become caught up in anniversary fervour but a generous production of symphonic recordings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022

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