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JS Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation (Julien Libeer)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, with all its minor-key preludes...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2022
SCRIABIN Mazurkas (Andrey Gugnin)
Unlike his more numerous Preludes and less numerous Études, Scriabin’s Mazurkas are not spread evenly across his career, being concentrated...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2022
Michael Korstick plays The Essential Scarlatti
A great deal of care has gone into the creation of this two-disc Scarlatti recital. That’s evident from the detailed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (Valentina Lisitsa)
You will remember Valentina Lisitsa as the Ukrainian pianist who broke the mould by establishing an international career courtesy of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
MEHMARI; VALE 'Brazilian Landscapes' (Mariama Alcântara)
Fans of Jascha Heifetz will have no trouble recognising Flausino Vale’s ‘Ao Pé da Fogueira’, the 15th of his Characteristic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022
FELDMAN Late works for piano (Alfonso Gómez)
Feldman’s single-movement late works are monumental in length, culminating in the six hour-long Second String Quartet (find a comfortable seat...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 31 (Andreas Haefliger)
At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
BARJANSKY Piano Music, Vol 2 (Julia Severus)
Julia Severus introduced Adolf Barjansky (1851-1900) to these pages in September 2020 with her first volume of premiere recordings. That...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 1 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)
Technically, this album is difficult to fault. Frank Peter Zimmermann’s playing of the Preludio of Bach’s Partita No 3 in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Jean Rondeau)
Jean Rondeau’s Goldberg Variations clocks in at 107 minutes, observing all the repeats, including those in the Aria da capo....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Pohádka: Tales From Prague To Budapest
The idea for this disc arose from these performers’ shared love of Janáček’s music. Laura van der Heijden – 2012’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
Origines & Departs: French Music For Clarinet & Piano
Principal clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martín joins forces with pianist Scott Mitchell for what is more or...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
SIBELIUS Works for Violin & Piano (Fenella Humphreys)
Fenella Humphreys conveyed tangible identity with Sibelius through her recent accounts of the Violin Concerto and all six Humoresques (8/21),...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
MOZART Violin Sonatas (Francesca Dego)
Readers may remember the perky pair of Mozart violin concertos Francesco Dego released last year with Roger Norrington and the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)
It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
MENDELSSOHN The String Quintets (Doric Quartet, Timothy Ridout)
Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
LAMB String Quartets (Jack Quartet)
American-born, Berlin-based Catherine Lamb is a composer of microtonal music (or spectralist, depending on your point of view). In 2020...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022
ENESCU Piano Quartet No. 1. Piano Trio in A Minor
The first strains of Enescu’s Piano Trio (1916) are evocative of entering a sumptuous, glittering ballroom and being unexpectedly thrust...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 04/2022
BRAHMS String Sextets (Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras)
I hadn’t thought that Brahms’s string sextets offered much opportunity for musical risk-taking but the Belcea Quartet and friends have...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022
Ensemble Kheops: Brahms, Berg & Zemlinsky
The Belgian-based Ensemble Kheops have always impressed with their fluency of tone, immaculate intonation and ensemble, and the highly sensitive...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
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