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Take 3
Pianist Polina Leschenko’s contribution to the booklet of this new album with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Reto Bieri is an essay...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2024
Path To the Moon
Take note of the cover artwork to Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman’s ‘Path to the Moon’, because its...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
Alena Baeva: Fantasy
An enthralling programme that stretches the idea of musical fantasy from the shorter of Schubert’s two great, late chamber works...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024
Live from the Concertgebouw: Piano trios by Shostakovich and Silvestrov
So far as the Shostakovich Trios are concerned, Korobeinikov, Gluzman and Moser enter a well-populated field but still manage to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
The Passenger: Piano Trios by Weinberg & Schubert
As pairings of composers go, there is a lot to commend Schubert and Weinberg. Apart from Schubert being one of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2024
PROKOFIEV 'Prokofiev Milestones Vol 1'
This attractive CD is a fresh look at some of Prokofiev’s chamber repertoire, although I wondered whether ‘milestones’ is the...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2024
LOCKE Consorts Flat and Sharp
This disc completes the suites ‘for My Cousin Kemble’ begun on Phantasm’s previous Matthew Locke recording (11/18) and twins them...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2024
LEFANU 'The Path Above the Dunes'
Métier continues its welcome coverage of Nicola LeFanu with this volume of four works spanning some 46 years of her...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024
Haydn All-Stars
Crisp, brightly sharp-edged and powerful, vibrato-less and pleasantly dry, the opening chord of Haydn’s Piano Trio in E minor, HobXV:12,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
GERNSHEIM String Quartets Vol 2
If you were seeking to dispel the image of Gernsheim as an epigone of Brahms and a lesser-known contemporary of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2024
ENESCU Piano Quartet No 1 FAURÉ Piano Quartet No 1
In 2022 Naxos released a recording of Enescu’s 1909 Piano Quartet No 1 by an ensemble led by pianist Josu...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2024
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
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