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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29 LISZT Piano Sonata (Haochen Zhang)

The 2009 Van Cliburn joint first prizewinner continues his recorded traversal of Himalayan pianistic peaks. Reviewers have justly praised Haochen...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 2 (Masato Suzuki)

Masato Suzuki has not hung around in getting down both books of Bach’s Well-Tempered Claver. Book 1 came out only...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2025

JS BACH Organ Works, Vol 7 – Leipzig Chorales II (Masaaki Suzuki)

Volume 7 of Suzuki’s Bach collection is by way of a companion to Vol 6, completing the collection of Leipzig...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2025

JS BACH Metamorphoses: Toccata, Partita and Suites for Solo Violin (Marco Serino)

These are impressive performances from violinist Marco Serino that more than hold their own against other leaders in the field....

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2025

Timothy Ridout: Telemann, Bach, Britten, Shaw

BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust fellow Timothy Ridout’s impressive discography across orchestral and chamber music is already sufficient...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2025

Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger (Samson Tsoy)

‘So sensitive and personal’ – that’s how Patrick Rucker described Schubert’s F minor Fantasie in the hands of Samson Tsoy...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2025

ALBENIZ; CHOPIN; GRANADOS 'Echos' (Charles Richard-Hamelin)

The most convincing performances of Chopin’s seldom-heard Allegro de concert texturally differentiate the work’s solo and tutti passages. Charles Richard-Hamelin...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2025

Violino over cornetto

Taking its cover at face value, violin and cornetto duets are the focus of this new chamber recital from the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2025

New Baroque – Sonatas

This recording showcases the results of the fifth iteration of the annual RůŽičková Composition Competition, which invites composers to write...

Reviewed in issue 04/2025

Renaud Capuçon: Richard Strauss

The opening tutti of the 17-year-old Richard Strauss’s Violin Concerto has a Schumann-like ring to it, especially as played by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2025

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