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JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Piotr Anderszewski)

Piotr Anderszewski here poses a most intriguing question: what happens when you take a group of 12 Preludes and Fugues...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2021

Dear Mademoiselle - A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) taught so many composers and musicians that a list of her pupils reads like a who’s who...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

STANFORD String Quintets & Intermezzi

If I might indulge myself for a moment, I remember the first time I encountered Stanford’s First String Quintet –...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

SIMAKU 'Con-ri-sonanza'

The music of Albanian-born, York-based composer Thomas Simaku (b1958) is something of a well-kept secret, though two discs of his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021

Calidore String Quartet: Babel

Robert Schumann, the American Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winner Caroline Shaw and Shostakovich may not seem obvious string quartet bedfellows,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

SAINT-SAËNS Sonatas & Trio

Bertrand Chamayou, whose performances of Saint-Saëns’s Second and Fifth Piano Concertos with the French National Orchestra and Emmanuel Krivine won...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2021

NONO La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura

Nono’s late style brings music to the verge of silence. The dynamic strays above pianissimo only occasionally. Pitch material is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 02/2021

MOZART Gran Partita SIMPSON Geysir

‘Glorious and grand, magnificent and sublime’, ran a contemporary verdict on Mozart’s Gran Partita, music that both crowns and transcends...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2021

MASON Zwischen den Sternen. Songbooks, Vol 1

‘Zwischen den Sternen’ – ‘Between the stars’ – are the opening words of one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2021

HAYDN String Quartets, Op 74. Scottish folk tunes (Maxwell Quartet)

Whereas Haydn’s earlier quartets were designed for players and a small group of connoisseurs, his Opp 71 and 74 were...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2021

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