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BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Variations, Vol 1 (Cédric Tiberghien)
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023
Camille El Bacha: Lumen
More and more classically trained pianists are embracing improvisation and composition, including Camille El Bacha, whose solo piano release ‘Lumen’...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
Obscurus
Lucy Humphris’s debut album (her only previous recording – as far as – I can determine – being Cecilia McDowall’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023
Impressions d'enfance
Franco-Romanian violinist Sarah Nemtanu, leader of the Orchestre National de France as well as a fine soloist in her own...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023
Golden Oldies: More Favourite Encores (Brodsky Quartet)
Every string quartetter, amateur or pro, knows the problem of finding appropriate encore pieces, and every quartet has its own...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023
WALTER String Quartet. Piano Quintet
‘Dissonance wants to become consonance, it longs to be undone’, according to Bruno Walter, and in his own music it...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023
In Celebration: The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman
Guitarist/composer Stanley Silverman (b1938) has had a remarkable career. A student of Milhaud and Leon Kirchner, he was highly in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Works (Cecilia Zilliacus)
The word here is ‘fearless’. You may not have expected to see the words fearless and Saint-Saëns in the same...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 05/2023
REICH The String Quartets (Mivos Quartet)
Tradition and innovation have always forged strong alliances in Steve Reich’s music, and his three string quartets illustrate this perhaps...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2023
POULENC Sextuor. Trio. Abade. Suite Francaise
Members of the redoubtable Quintette Moraguès recorded a good deal in the first decade of the present century. Michel Moraguès’s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023
HAYDN; LEITH 'Big House'
The Ruisi Quartet waited 10 years before making their debut recording. When they finally got around to it, at a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2023
FARRINGTON 'Classical Changes'
In the Coronation year of 1953, Trinidad-born pianist Winifred Atwell recorded Let’s Have a Party, a right royal knees-up of...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023
DILLON Emblemata: Carnival. Tanz/haus
The ultra-cerebral stereotype of the New Complexity often feels like a bit of a chimera. Blame all those images of...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023
BRAHMS Piano Trios, Opp 36 & 87 (Greenwich Trio)
While there’s a train of thought these days that full-fat Brahms is bad for you, that tradition is alive and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
BEETHOVEN The Late Quartets (Calidore String Quartet)
The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Firebird (Mäkelä)
In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus Mäkelä, as expected, engages his keen ears and sense...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023
STRAUSS 'Santtu conducts Strauss'
‘We started big’, says Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s welcome note in the booklet about his first season at the helm of the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2023
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 8-10 (Petrenko)
Recorded during lockdown, this trio of Shostakovich symphonies chimes quite dramatically with the mood of that time and speaks volumes...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Liss. Wilson)
John Wilson’s new Rachmaninov album with the Sinfonia of London opens with a monstrous crash in the first few seconds,...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2023
PUTS The City. Marimba Concerto. Moonlight (Alsop)
Kevin Puts wrote his Marimba Concerto (1997, rev 2021) while a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023
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