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BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Fantasien Op 116 (Adam Laloum)
Adam Laloum takes seriously the maestoso directive in the first movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata, bringing a granitic yet...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
BRAHMS Piano Sonata No 3. Ballades (Alexandre Kantorow)
Throughout this Brahms recital, Alexandre Kantorow throws down an epic gauntlet, casting his sights on dynamic and dramatic extremes. The...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (Fabio Biondi)
Two interesting aspects of Fabio Biondi’s deeply personal set of the Bach solo violin works beg close attention: their considerable...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (David Fray)
What is it about the Goldberg Variations that encourages such extremes, such individual interpretations? You could argue it’s the plainness...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2021
MeMento Mori (Klingzeug Barockensemble)
Rare has become the ensemble that releases its first album a decade after formation. But much is gained by Klingzeug’s...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2021
Face(s) à Face(s)
The Romain Leleu Sextet is a class act. Let’s start with the elegant virtuosity of the French trumpeter himself, for...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
SEARLE 'Pilgrim of Curiosity'
The Scottish composer Oliver Iredale Searle (b1977) has a clearly defined line in evocative, often exotic titles, which give his...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2021
SCHUBERT Octet in F Major (Wigmore Soloists)
Schubert may have taken Beethoven’s Septet as the model for his Octet but he filled the template with his own...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021
PLEYEL Prussian Quartets Nos 10-12 (Pleyel Quartet Köln)
Ignace Joseph Pleyel’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets were composed during the mid-1780s and published in four sets of three in 1787 with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021
KORNGOLD Chamber Music
While Korngold’s 21st-century rehabilitation as a serious composer seems well and truly complete, it’s fair to say that his chamber...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2021
GIPPS 'Dedication' Clarinet chamber music
The oboe was Ruth Gipps’s main instrument (she studied with Leon Goossens and was at one time principal oboist in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
FAGERLUND Oceano
BIS continues to explore the Finnish composer Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972) with this overview of chamber music from the past 15...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021
DRAESEKE String Quartets Vol 2 (Constanze Quartet)
Who is Felix Draeseke, you may ask. It would seem upon closer inspection that Draeseke (1835-1913) is perhaps the most...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2021
BEETHOVEN String Quartets, Op 18 Nos 1-3 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)
Soloist-led string quartets on disc stretch from the Rose, Busch and Paganini Quartets (the latter led by the brilliant Polish...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Op 30 (Christian Tetzlaff)
‘How greatly you wrong me’: it’s extraordinary to think that Beethoven completed his Op 30 so soon before the anguished...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2021
ARNOLD A Centenary Celebration
If the Malcolm Arnold centenary hasn’t exactly unleashed a torrent of new recordings, that’s probably because few British composers of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2021
Shani Diluka: The Proust Album
Whether celebrating his 150th birthday this past July or anticipating the centennial of his death next November, Marcel Proust has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2021
WOLF-FERRARI Complete Overtures & Intermezzi (Haider)
Eagle-eyed fans of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) will notice that no fewer than five numbers on this very likeable compendium have...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2021
WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Krimer)
This disc completes Rostislav Krimer’s survey of Weinberg’s chamber symphonies with the East-West Chamber Orchestra. As David Fanning rightly noted...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Francisco Fullana)
In October 2021 Gramophone updated its ‘Top 10 Vivaldi recordings’. Is there space among this shortlist for another Four Seasons?...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2021
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