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BEETHOVEN Pastoral Symphony. Tempest Sonata (Ntokou & Argerich)

This recording arrived at the close of Beethoven’s anniversary year and features an unusual partnering of a piano sonata and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 4-6 (Boris Giltburg)

A cursory glance at a couple of catalogues purportedly maintaining lists of commercially available recordings reveals some 42 pianists, living...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH; BUSONI Goldberg Variations (Chiyan Wong)

Chiyan Wong, the Hong Kong-born pianist who turns 33 this year, is an instrumentalist of truly remarkable gifts. Most striking...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

JS BACH Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 4 (Benjamin Alard)

With his fourth volume devoted to the complete keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Benjamin Alard reaches the middle to...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2021

HAYDN String Quartets Op 76 (London Haydn Quartet; Chiaroscuro Quartet)

‘They are full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects,’ wrote Charles Burney upon hearing Haydn’s Op 76 Quartets...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021

Mirrors - 21st Century American Piano Trios

The piano trio genre seems to have inspired new generations of American composers over the past few decades, and not...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021

Around Mozart: A Journey through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet

We’re grabbed by an arresting and self-assured anacrusis, a captivating fullness of tone. But it’s not just a case of...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2021

WEINBERG String Quartets Nos 2, 5 & 8 (Arcadia Quartet)

It was likely that Chandos, given its extensive coverage of his orchestral output, would turn to the string quartets of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2021

WALTON Piano Quartet. Violin Sonata. Toccata

This recording of Walton’s Piano Quartet, composed during 1918 19, is a most welcome addition to the catalogue in that...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2021

SCHNITTKE Works for Violin and Piano (Daniel Hope)

When he was 15, Daniel Hope heard a fellow student play Schnittke’s First Violin Sonata, sparking what’s become a lifelong...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021

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