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JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, Vol 1 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)
Technically, this album is difficult to fault. Frank Peter Zimmermann’s playing of the Preludio of Bach’s Partita No 3 in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Jean Rondeau)
Jean Rondeau’s Goldberg Variations clocks in at 107 minutes, observing all the repeats, including those in the Aria da capo....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Pohádka: Tales From Prague To Budapest
The idea for this disc arose from these performers’ shared love of Janáček’s music. Laura van der Heijden – 2012’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
Origines & Departs: French Music For Clarinet & Piano
Principal clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martín joins forces with pianist Scott Mitchell for what is more or...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
SIBELIUS Works for Violin & Piano (Fenella Humphreys)
Fenella Humphreys conveyed tangible identity with Sibelius through her recent accounts of the Violin Concerto and all six Humoresques (8/21),...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
MOZART Violin Sonatas (Francesca Dego)
Readers may remember the perky pair of Mozart violin concertos Francesco Dego released last year with Roger Norrington and the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonatas (Alina Ibragimova)
It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
MENDELSSOHN The String Quintets (Doric Quartet, Timothy Ridout)
Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
LAMB String Quartets (Jack Quartet)
American-born, Berlin-based Catherine Lamb is a composer of microtonal music (or spectralist, depending on your point of view). In 2020...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022
ENESCU Piano Quartet No. 1. Piano Trio in A Minor
The first strains of Enescu’s Piano Trio (1916) are evocative of entering a sumptuous, glittering ballroom and being unexpectedly thrust...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 04/2022
BRAHMS String Sextets (Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras)
I hadn’t thought that Brahms’s string sextets offered much opportunity for musical risk-taking but the Belcea Quartet and friends have...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022
Ensemble Kheops: Brahms, Berg & Zemlinsky
The Belgian-based Ensemble Kheops have always impressed with their fluency of tone, immaculate intonation and ensemble, and the highly sensitive...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op 12 No 1; Op 24; Op 96 (Rachel Podger)
For her first recorded foray into Beethoven, Rachel Podger chooses three sonatas that suit her essentially collegial performance style. The...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2022
SIBELIUS Compete Symphonies (Mäkelä)
There’s something extraordinarily satisfying about embarking upon Sibelius’s entire symphonic journey in a single one-day sitting. The evolution and refining...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
Slatkin conducts Slatkin
Before specialising as a conductor, Leonard Slatkin studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in Los Angeles, and he has remained active...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022
Move - The Trumpet As Movie Star
You might describe this entertaining disc as trumpeting (apologies) the extraordinary talents of Romain Leleu through a medium well used...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
America (Daniel Hope)
Daniel Hope was never just another violin virtuoso. His curiosity, his ability to think outside the box, to embrace passions...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
John Williams: The Berlin Concert
Viewers in the UK may have seen this Berlin Philharmonic concert on BBC Four in an unscheduled airing on Christmas...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2022
WALTON 'A Centenary Celebration' Façade. Henry V
The appearance of this Somm release marks 100 years since the premiere of the brilliant 19-year-old William Walton’s Façade. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2022
VIVALDI L’estro armonico JS BACH Keyboard arrangements
We’re so familiar with Vivaldi these days that it’s easy to forget what an impact his first set of concertos,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
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