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Inon Barnatan: Rachmaninov Reflections
Five years ago, Ward Marston released substantial fragments from a demonstration of the Symphonic Dances given by Rachmaninov to help...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Sonya Bach: Mussorgsky
Sonya Bach studied with both Alicia de Larrocha and Lazar Berman, so it’s no surprise that in her hands A...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
BRAHMS 'The Muse' (Nino Gvetadze)
Patrick Rucker thought very highly of Nino Gvetadze’s Schumann recording on this label (12/20), so I was intrigued to hear...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
BONIS Complete Music for Solo Piano Vol 1 (Mengyiyi Chen)
This release is billed as Vol 1 of the complete music for solo piano of Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 & 6 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)
In many ways, Xaver Scharwenka’s piano duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies stand out from numerous others by such 19th-century ‘in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Shai Wosner)
Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
A Beethoven Odyssey Vol 8 (James Brawn)
James Brawn’s traversal of Beethoven’s piano sonatas has reached its eighth instalment, with a selection of sonatas composed between 1800...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Der Kunst der Fuge (Christophe Rousset)
It’s a strange fact that, although it is generally accepted that Bach intended The Art of Fugue for harpsichord, recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024
Bruce Liu: Waves
After his utterly exceptional disc of Chopin, recorded live during the course of the 2021 International Chopin Competition (12/21), Canadian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
Philarmonica: Purcell, Matteis, Mrs Philarmonica
The young French early music group Le Consort has form when it comes to uniting Baroque’s biggest names with near-forgotten,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
Painted Light: Music for String Quartet
Perceptions of colour connect each of the works on the Solem Quartet’s new album. The musical styles range from Impressionism...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
Fathers & Daughters
Its title may conjure Turgenevian imagery but ‘Fathers and Daughters’ celebrates the close familial and professional ties between these four...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
REGER; SENFTER Clarinet Quintets
Having completed their traversal of Mozart’s string quartets, then recently issued an insightful coupling of piano quintets by Franck and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
RAVEL; SCHUMANN String Quartets (Leonkoro Quartet)
The Leonkoro (Esperanto: ‘Lionheart’) Quartet make their debut album following a string of competition wins. As I remarked in a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
MÜLLER-HARTMANN Chamber Works
The ‘Music in Exile’ series led by the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble has turned up several worthwhile discoveries among those Jewish...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
MESSIAEN Quatuor pour la fin du temps MURAIL Stalag VIIIa
No 20th-century composition rises more determinedly above earthly trials and tribulations than the quartet for violin, cello, clarinet and piano...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
MADERNA Serenata per un satellite. Venetian Journal
Any mid-20th-century composer as upfront and exuberant in his embrace of modernist and avant-garde techniques as Bruno Maderna was bound...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
HAYDN Baryton Trios Vol 2
Haydn’s output for the baryton is one of those facets of his artistry that is more known about than it...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
Handel at Home Vol 2: Total Eclipse
It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
BOCCHERINI String Quintets
The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024
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