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Review of JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas

JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas

Kyung Wha Chung’s solo Bach has changed since she last recorded some more than 40 years ago, but then, whose...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16

Review of Fischer & Müller-Schott: Duo Sessions

Fischer & Müller-Schott: Duo Sessions

There’s plenty to enjoy here, though Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott virtually duplicate a programme that Nigel Kennedy and Lynn...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16

Review of Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann: Cello Rising

Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann: Cello Rising

Cellist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is regularly to be found performing with early music ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16

Review of SQUIRE Cello Miniatures

SQUIRE Cello Miniatures

First, a declaration of interest. Like anyone who learnt the cello through the ABRSM’s exams, the miniatures of WH Squire...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16

Review of RÓŻYCKI; FRIEDMAN Piano Quintets

RÓŻYCKI; FRIEDMAN Piano Quintets

This is the second time this year that Ludomir Różicki has featured in Gramophone – a composer highly regarded in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16

Review of HAYDN Piano Trios Nos 39, 40, 42 & 43

HAYDN Piano Trios Nos 39, 40, 42 & 43

This is the hardest sort of disc to write about: good, thoroughly musical playing, yet without the enlivening, illuminating touch...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16

Review of HAYDN Sun Quartets Op 20 Nos 1 - 3

HAYDN Sun Quartets Op 20 Nos 1 - 3

North German critics with a humour bypass had taken Haydn to task for ‘the odd mix of the comic and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16

Review of SAINT-SAËNS; CHAUSSON Piano Quartets

SAINT-SAËNS; CHAUSSON Piano Quartets

‘It would be hard to find a more vivid demonstration of the variety of French music-making in the last quarter...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16

Review of BUCK Sinfonietta Works

BUCK Sinfonietta Works

Ole Buck (b 1945) is one of the only composers to have emerged from Denmark’s 20th-century search for ‘new simplicity’...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16

Review of BRAHMS; HERZOGENBERG String Quartets

BRAHMS; HERZOGENBERG String Quartets

Heinrich von Herzogenberg dedicated the three quartets of his Op 42 (1884) to Brahms, his friend and musical idol. Hearing...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16


 

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