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SCHUBERT Trio Opus 100. Sonatensatz. Notturno (Busch Trio)

I didn’t expect to begin this review with the single-movement Sonatensatz – and it’s true, you’re not likely to buy...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2020

HENNIES Spectral Malsconcities

When he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the composer Giacinto Scelsi nursed himself back to health by playing a...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 12/2020

FUCHS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 (Hyejin Chung)

He may long ago have become a footnote in musical history but Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) was more than the able...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020

BRAHMS Chamber Music (Frank-Gemmill, Gromwood, Gilmore)

Anyone who loves Brahms even a little bit will know what wonderful roles he gave to the horn, not least...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020

BARSANTI; HANDEL Edinburgh 1742 (Parte seconda)

This sequel delivers entirely wonderful playing from Ensemble Marsyas. Much of what Lindsay Kemp found excellent about the first instalment...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2020

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 5 (Brabbins)

Martyn Brabbins’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle continues to go from strength to strength with this impressively cogent, self-effacing Fifth, a...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020

SHAPERO Orchestral Works (Rose)

Hearing the opening selection without knowing the composer’s identity, one might venture to guess Stravinsky in regard to the bold...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020

SAINT-SAENS Carnival of the Animals (The Kanneh-Masons)

If you’re looking for a musical stocking-filler for the under-12s in your life, relax: you’ve found it. Here, bright-eyed and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2020

PROKOFIEV; STRAVINSKY 'Silver Age' (Daniil Trifonov)

Daniil Trifonov rightly describes Russia’s Silver Age as ‘an increasingly fractured social, political and intellectual environment – a cocktail of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2020

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 - 3 (Litton)

This is the final instalment of Andrew Litton’s Prokofiev symphony cycle, one of the most sonically sophisticated in the lists....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2020

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