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ELGAR The Kingdom (Temple)

David Temple masterminds an excitingly cogent and hugely committed account of Elgar’s The Kingdom, a work which, like Adrian Boult...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2025

DUPONT Complete Songs (Cyrille Dubois)

War, influenza and other manifestations of tragic destiny left 20th-century French music with numerous might-have-been composers, though Gabriel Dupont’s 31...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2025

BRAHMS Lieder (Christian Gerhaher)

It was eight years ago that Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber released their recording of Brahms’s Die schöne Magelone (3/17)....

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2025

Roma Eterna: A Journey Back in Time (Simone Vallerotonda)

For his third solo album, Simone Vallerotonda, ‘a Roman lutenist by birth and soul’, makes a Grand Tour stopover with...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025

Mariam Batsashvili: Influences

Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili, the laureate of several European competitions, is also a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2025

Katrina Lee: Chronicles For Solo Violin

The works of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté are hardly central repertoire material – and the prospect of an hour’s worth of her...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 06/2025

The Alchemy of the Piano - A film by Jan Schmidt-Garre with Francesco Piemontesi

Films about the piano and pianists these days are as rare as hen’s teeth. Anyone who can get such a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2025

SCRIABIN Vers la flamme: Piano Works (Yevgeny Sudbin)

Scriabin was part of Yevgeny Sudbin’s early success. His fourth recording for an initial five-year contract with BIS was a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2025

PROKOFIEV; TCHAIKOVSKY; SHOR 'Somnia' (Denis Kozhukhin)

Tchaikovsky subtitled his sequence of 24 miniatures ‘Easy Pieces for Children à la Schumann’. While there are affinities with the...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2025

MERTZ Elegie. Bardenklange. Fantaisie hongroise. Schubert’sche Lieder (Petra Poláčková)

Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806‑56) was a Hungarian-born guitarist and composer who, despite being largely self-taught on the guitar, established himself...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025

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