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CPE BACH 'Instrumental Theatre of Effects'

Emanuel Bach, second son of JS, was famous for his rhapsodising at the clavichord in his Hamburg home. As the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024

ANDRES The Blind Banister

Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

CHOPIN Études (Yunchan Lim)

Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024

Velvet Brown. Tuba

The repertoire on Velvet Brown’s fourth recording for Crystal is of such absorbing interest and the playing of such high...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Bernard)

David Bernard and his dedicated amateur orchestra continue their recorded traversal of the standard orchestral repertoire with this set of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

ROSNER Orchestral Music Vol 4 (Palmer)

Arnold Rosner’s extraordinary Requiem (A/20) was my Critics’ Choice for 2020, the third volume of his orchestral works (5/19) my...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024

KAYE Time is the Sea We Swim In

The compositional catalogue of New York-resident Debra Kaye runs to around 70 works, ranging from orchestral and instrumental works to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024

BEACH; CORIGLIANO Violin Sonatas (Usha Kapoor)

The coupling is one of contrasts, much as an album of Richard Strauss and Stravinsky would present. While it’s perfectly...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024

Michael Spyres: In The Shadows

We’ve got used to the fact that Michael Spyres albums take us on unexpected journeys, often with unexpected diversions on...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2024

WAGNER Parsifal (Jordan)

Stage+ hosts the film of this Russian-prison Parsifal, directed (via Zoom) by Kirill Serebrennikov in Vienna in 2021. Anyone discomfited...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

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