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BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Ballades (Alexandre Kantorow)

Throughout this Brahms recital, Alexandre Kantorow throws down an epic gauntlet, casting his sights on dynamic and dramatic extremes. The...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (Fabio Biondi)

Two interesting aspects of Fabio Biondi’s deeply personal set of the Bach solo violin works beg close attention: their considerable...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (David Fray)

What is it about the Goldberg Variations that encourages such extremes, such individual interpretations? You could argue it’s the plainness...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2021

MeMento Mori (Klingzeug Barockensemble)

Rare has become the ensemble that releases its first album a decade after formation. But much is gained by Klingzeug’s...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2021

Face(s) à Face(s)

The Romain Leleu Sextet is a class act. Let’s start with the elegant virtuosity of the French trumpeter himself, for...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021

SEARLE 'Pilgrim of Curiosity'

The Scottish composer Oliver Iredale Searle (b1977) has a clearly defined line in evocative, often exotic titles, which give his...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Octet in F Major (Wigmore Soloists)

Schubert may have taken Beethoven’s Septet as the model for his Octet but he filled the template with his own...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

PLEYEL Prussian Quartets Nos 10-12 (Pleyel Quartet Köln)

Ignace Joseph Pleyel’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets were composed during the mid-1780s and published in four sets of three in 1787 with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021

KORNGOLD Chamber Music

While Korngold’s 21st-century rehabilitation as a serious composer seems well and truly complete, it’s fair to say that his chamber...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2021

GIPPS 'Dedication' Clarinet chamber music

The oboe was Ruth Gipps’s main instrument (she studied with Leon Goossens and was at one time principal oboist in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021

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