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BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18 Nos 4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)
A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022
'Beethoven the Conquering Hero' Complete Cello Sonatas (Jennifer Kloetzel)
Sample Jennifer Kloetzel’s solo phrase at the start of Beethoven’s Variations on Handel’s ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and you’ll...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
BARGIEL Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
My first encounter with the music of Woldemar Bargiel (1828 97) was in 1997 and Steven Isserlis’s recording of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
CPE BACH Sonatas for Flute and Fortepiano (François Lazarevitch)
I think CPE Bach would have got on well with François Lazarevitch, such is the quantity of curiosity and imagination...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022
Collector: Mozart Concertos
What’s the collective noun for bassoons? A grumble of bassoons, after the Grandfather in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf? A...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022
Ophélie Gaillard: A Night in London
While mention of the Baroque cello repertoire might first prompt thoughts of Italy, the title of this programme from Ophélie...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022
Amarcord d'Un Tango
‘Amarcord d’un Tango’, saxophonist Marco Albonetti writes in a booklet note, ‘was created to offer the listener a brief journey...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
VANHAL Symphonies, Vol 5
This latest volume from Naxos devoted to the symphonies of the prolific Bohemian figure Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) fittingly bears...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2022
STRAVINSKY Ballets (Rattle)
Performing all three of Stravinsky’s early ballets in a single evening (I remember it well) was a tall order, even...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2022
STRAUSS; KORNGOLD; SCHREKER "Metamorphosen"
While Metamorphosen may be the finest music here, lending its name to yet another distinctive album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
SCHNELZER A Freak in Burbank
Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer (b1972) does a good line in clear musical imagery, responds with immediacy to clear ideas and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2022
SANTORO Symphony Nos 5 & 7 'Brasília'
As well as being one of the most significant Brazilian composers of the 20th century, Cláudio Santoro (1919 89) was...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022
RAVEL La valse & Other Works (Oramo)
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Ravel’s orchestral reimaginings of his piano originals is that both forms retain their own...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2022
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos. Capriccio Brillant (Lars Vogt)
Mendelssohn performed by a chamber orchestra and directed from the keyboard always looks like an enticing proposition. And so it...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Bychkov)
Whatever weight you place on Mahler’s Bohemian and Moravian connections, his discography contains surprisingly little that can be described as...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
COOPER Continuum
As society finally takes its first cautious steps towards a brave new post-pandemic world, more and more musicians are sharing...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh is the first instalment in a new cycle of the symphonies being recorded by...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 5 & 0 (Boris Giltburg)
I first heard Boris Giltburg shortly after his victory in 2013 at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, when Marin Alsop, who...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2022
ARNOLD; GIPPS; SCHÖNBERGER Horn Concertos (Ben Goldscheider)
The horn concertos by Malcolm Arnold (No 2, 1956) and Ruth Gipps (1969) have appeared on disc before, in scintillating...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
Norma Fisher at the BBC Vol 3
Michelle Assay was full of enthusiasm for the first two volumes of Norma Fisher’s BBC broadcasts. Here’s a musician who...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
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