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Chopin; Schumann; Scriabin (Xue-Hong; Chang; Yunjie)

These three new discs from Accentus are the fruits of a partnership with Académie France-Chine, launched in 2018 by pianist...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

Mariam Batsashvili: Chopin and Liszt

Probably the most attractive part of Mariam Batsashvili’s latest offering is the Liszt Six Polish Songs after Chopin. These arrangements...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2019

BEETHOVEN; RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas (Pogorelich)

I’ve rarely encountered such an ugly-sounding piano release. While the engineering admirably captures Ivo Pogorelich’s wide dynamic scope, his sonority...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

JS BACH Organ Works Vol 3 (Suzuki)

If Masaaki Suzuki’s sacred cantata series was necessarily chronological, clearly evident in this new journey – on the basis of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2019

Matthew Zalkind: Music for Solo Cello

By choosing two of the most demanding works in the solo cello repertory for his recording debut, Matthew Zalkind seems...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019

South of the Circle (Siggi String Quartet)

So far as I am aware, the only previous outing on disc by the Siggi Quartet (formed in 2012) was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019

Miloš Karadaglić: The Sound of Silence

The guitar is a two-headed beast. In its civilised, classical form it is the instrument of the concert hall. Yet...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019

Silk Baroque

To borrow from the psychologist James J Gibson, our eyes are on ‘the head on the shoulders of a body...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2019

The Leipzig Circle Vol 1

It’s an attractive idea: a programme of chamber music by four mutual friends, Robert and Clara Schumann and Fanny and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019

VIVALDI Complete Concertos and Sinfonias for Strings and Basso continuo

In 1739 a Frenchman, Charles de Brosses, wrote from Venice: ‘Here they have a form of music that we know...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2019

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