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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 30 LISZT Piano Sonata S178

Back when the stampede was on and all the original-instrument orchestras were eager to record fortepiano concertos prior to the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata Nos 27 - 29

What a pleasure to report the near-simultaneous release of two magnificent new Hammerklaviers by a pair of internationally recognised artists,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2016

JS BACH Keyboard Suites BWV831, 825 & 809

Geneva-born Fabrizio Chiovetta presents three contrasted suites in this Bach recital. He’s particularly compelling in the least frequently performed of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2016

Violin Sonatas & Pieces

‘They speak the language of these composers effortlessly and naturally.’ So says the booklet-note of Latvian sisters Lauma and Baiba...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2016

Chant d’automne

Modern Dutch solo brass players have a knack for programming. For Wim Van Hasselt it’s the creative outlet from various...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2016

MOZART Violin Sonatas

When Mozart’s earliest ‘sonatas for keyboard with violin accompaniment’, K6 9, appeared in Paris in 1764, father Leopold wrote of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2016

MARTINŮ Sonatina MOSZKOWSKI Suite

Trio Koch – Luxembourg-based violinist Philippe Koch, his pianist son Jean-Philippe and violinist daughter Laurence – take pride in championing...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2016

Viennese Miniatures

‘Lanner, Strauss and their waltzes dominate everything,’ wrote Chopin from Vienna in 1830. Not so much these days. If Johann...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

KREISLER; SCHULHOFF; ZEMLINSKY String Quartets

Fritz Kreisler took his only string quartet very seriously indeed, and the Artis Quartet follow suit. Cellist Othmar Müller digs...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

KHORKOVA klangNarbe

The music of the Russian composer Marina Khorkova mines the idiom associated with Helmut Lachenmann and developed by Mark Andre...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2016

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