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Stella x Schubert
The piano’s mysteriously, sensuously quivering pianissimo tremolo on to which is spun a long, slowly unfurling violin half-melody, the whole...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023
MENDELSSOHN Complete String Quartets, Vol 2 (Quatuor Van Kuijk)
Alpha and the brilliant young Van Kuijk Quartet again steal a march on their CD competitors by offering three Mendelssohn...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023
HARRISON Chamber Works
Although it has never been forgotten, the music of Pamela Harrison (1915 90) has received few recordings, and those who...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
GRIEG; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Violin Sonatas (Charlie Siem)
Charlie Siem and Itamar Golan team up for a commanding, grippingly communicative rendering of Vaughan Williams’s meaty and technically challenging...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
GÍSLADÓTTIR VÍDDIR. SILVA
Bára Gísladóttir is emerging as a major figure on the contemporary music scenes in Denmark (where she lives) and Iceland...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023
BUSCH Chamber Works
The prospect of Adolf Busch writing quartets is an enticing one for any listener curious to hear inside the mind...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2023
BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Ning Feng)
I can imagine some listeners finding these interpretations of the Brahms violin sonatas a bit too subdued, although I find...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Midori)
Conversationalist Beethoven, this – meaning that two very different voices (Midori, gentle; Thibaudet, assertive) bring their individual qualities to each...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2023
MOZART Piano Concertos 21&24 (Robert Levin) Piano Concerto No 23 (Emelyanychev)
Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music pick up their Mozart piano concerto cycle where they left off quarter...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
Neeme Järvi in Concert
This is a marvellous recording. It’s not uncommon for conductors as distinguished as Neeme Järvi (who turned 85 last year)...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
Eldbjørg Hemsing: Arctic
After a string of well-received albums for BIS (5/18, 12/18, 4/19, 6/20), star violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing moved to Sony in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto (Enrico Dindo)
It was impossible not to be intrigued when this one appeared on my desk. Dvořák’s mighty Cello Concerto – an...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023
FRANCK Symphony in D Minor. Rédemption. Le chasseur maudit (Altinoglu)
Having been somewhat neglected in recent decades, Franck’s once-popular Symphony in D minor appears to be enjoying something of a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 12 & 15 (Storgårds)
A very revealing coupling from Storgårds. The question is often asked why it is that the predecessor to the Twelfth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
WENNÄKOSKI Sigla. Flounce. Sedecim
In October 2015 Ondine’s founder, Reijo Kiilunen – in conversation with Andrew Mellor – singled out Lotta Wennäkoski (b1970) as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Sinfonia antartica. Symphony No 9 (Brabbins)
Martyn Brabbins rounds off his Vaughan Williams symphony cycle for Hyperion with a most impressive account of the Ninth. His...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto & Chamber Works (Isabelle Faust)
So this is the Stravinsky Violin Concerto I have so often seen on the page but rarely heard in performance....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Symphony No 2 (Falletta)
It doesn’t at all surprise me that Scriabin once thought of calling his Poem of Ecstasy ‘Poème orgiaque’ or ‘Orgiastic...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (Noseda )
Over a concentrated few days in May 2004, Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in an incendiary Prokofiev symphony...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2023
PALUMBO Woven Lights
If Italian new music seems a rather less adventurous place now than in previous decades, the emergence of composers such...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
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