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MOZART Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (completed Timothy Jones)

Completed fragments are curious things. Are they there to render playable music that would otherwise be lost to us? If...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2021

MENDELSSOHN; MONTGEROULT; VIOTTI; WEBER Violin Sonatas (Sophie Rosa)

How clever to pair sonatas by Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) and Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836). Renowned virtuosos and pedagogues as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2021

LANGGAARD Complete Works for Violin & Piano, Vol 3

Here ends Dacapo’s three-disc survey of Rued Langgaard’s complete works for violin and piano, led by two of the composer’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2021

KAHN Leaves from the Tree of Life

The rediscovery of music suppressed in the Third Reich continues with this release of music by Robert Kahn (1865-1951), a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2021

A French Connection

Beyond ‘fabulous’, it’s not always easy to put a finger on what exactly Ernst Chausson’s ear-grabbing Concert in D, Op...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2021

BRAHMS Viola Sonatas. Zwei Gesange Op 91 (Antoine Tamestit)

Allegro amabile, the tempo indication for the first movement of Brahms’s Op 120 No 2, seems almost an invitation from...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2021

Prism III - Beethoven, Bartok, JS Bach

When Beethoven shares the theme of Op 131’s Andante between the two violins, it’s like two friends, not always but...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Consort II

It is a rare and wonderful thing when a sequel surpasses its first instalment. In my review of Vol 1...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2021

Settecento: Baroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States

After the Fiats, the chess pieces and the football shirts comes the Vespa, another striking cover image for the latest...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2021

WEINBERG Violin Concerto. Sonata for Two Violins (Gidon Kremer)

Given his unstinting advocacy of Mieczysław Weinberg in recent years, it was inevitable that Gidon Kremer would eventually tackle the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2021

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