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Dall'Abaco and the Art of Variation

‘The Joy of Cellos’ would be an appropriate subtitle for this elegant, playful, infectious recital curated by Elinor Frey. The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2024

CORELLI; QUENTIN Flute Sonatas (Anna Besson)

You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be stopped in your tracks at the outset of this...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas (Gary Hoffman)

Writing in general terms, there seem to be two principal routes to the heart of these marvellous works, one relatively...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024

JS BACH Six Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch)

This album of Bach’s Six Sonatas, BWV1014‑19, is accompanied by a lengthy and excellently detailed note from Bach scholar David...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024

AUERBACH; DVOŘÁK; WEINBERG Piano Trios

Trio Zimbalist – pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu, violinist Josef Špaček and cellist Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin – took their name from Efrem...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2024

VIVALDI 'Concerti per una vita' (Théotime Langlois de Swarte)

A whole lot is promised in this double-disc release. The words ‘world premiere recording’ are used eight times in the...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024

TARKIAINEN Midnight Sun Variations

In some ways, Ondine’s second disc of music by Outi Tarkiainen paints the composer in a slightly different light –...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024

SIBELIUS Symphony No 4 (Rouvali)

Sibelius’s biographer Erik Tawaststjerna (I write this on the 30th anniversary of his death) once stated that Herbert von Karajan...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2024

Lang Lang: Saint-Saëns

For The Carnival, Lang Lang is joined by his pianist wife Gina Alice. It begins splendidly with the lion loudly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024

SAARIAHO Maan Varjot. Château de l'ame. True Fire. Offrande

The new Kaija Saariaho-funded organ at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki has sparked a mini-revival for the composer’s organ concerto Maan...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024

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