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Le Temps retrouvé: Fauré, Bonis, Hahn, Boulanger
A sepia postcard framing the artists, a red rose lying alongside it, illustrates the booklet of ‘Le temps retrouvé’, a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
A Lionel Tertis Celebration (Timothy Ridout)
London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
SCHUMANN Piano Quartet. Piano Quintet
Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024
OSWALD 12 Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo (Capella Jenensis)
This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
MENDELSSOHN Works for Cello & Piano (Sol Gabetta)
Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
Handel for Trumpet: Concertos and Arias Re-Imagined (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)
Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024
FAURÉ The Music for Cello and Piano
This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024
CORBETTA 'La Guitarre Royalle'
It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024
WF BACH; GOLDBERG Trio Sonatas
If it did nothing else, Forkel’s origin story for the Goldberg Variations immortalised the name of Bach’s student, who would...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2024
Chromosphere: Symphonic Colours of the Woodwind Orchestra
Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
Avi Avital 'Baroque Album'
If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 (Welser-Möst)
The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
SUPPÉ Fantasia Symphonica; Orchestral Overtures; Preludes (Rudner)
The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann; James Ehnes)
Not so long ago, in the words of writer and broadcaster Michael Oliver, Stravinsky’s elegant Concerto ‘generally sounded very nasty...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2024
SIBELIUS Karelia Suite; Rakastava; Lemminkäinen (Mälkki)
BIS’s third recording of the four tone poems Sibelius based on the adventures of the hero Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
SGAMBATI Sinfonia Festiva; Piano Concerto (la Vecchia)
It’s good to see the Sgambati Piano Concerto given another dusting. As the first Romantic piano concerto composed by someone...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles... (Morlot)
Although a Bicentennial commission and premiered in New York, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles … (1971 74) has only latterly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
LALO Orchestral Works (Järvi)
Conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director for Life, in his native Tallinn, Neeme Järvi...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances (Brauner)
Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
SCHUMANN; GRIEG Piano Concertos (Elisabeth Leonskaja)
Another Schumann/Grieg concertos coupling, anyone? After Lipatti, Kovacevich and countless others, what does this new one have to offer? Well,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2024
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