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JS BACH Die Kunst der Fuge (Masaaki Suzuki)
Only weeks after, in reviewing Christophe Rousset’s recent Art of Fugue (Aparté, 1/24), I was saying how recordings of it...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Trio Lirico: Treasures
Two difficult rarities anchor this release. Most challenging is the first recording of Peter Eötvös’s 2020 Trio, written as a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Daniel Hope: Dance!
We learn from Andrew Stewart’s first-rate booklet that Daniel Hope wanted to make a dance album 20 years ago. Concept...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
TARTINI Violin Sontatas (Adrian Chandler)
Well, what a treat this is. I can’t be the only one who finds themselves, whenever a fresh concerto recording...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
Suite Italienne: Vivaldi, Sollima, Stravinsky
The vitality of sound captured here by Linn is possibly the most attractive aspect of this album. It perfectly suits...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024
SHOSTAKOVICH Complete String Quartets (Quatuor Danel)
The Shostakovich quartets have moved from the periphery to the centre of the repertoire without too much in the way...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
From the Beginning: Music for Winds and Piano by Mozart, Thuille and Poulenc
As the booklet note confirms, this recording is ‘a celebration of 30 years of music-making’ between the splendid Galliard Ensemble...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 3 (Trio Gaspard)
Trio Gaspard return with a third selection from across Haydn’s output of piano trios. The C major and E minor...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
HANDEL Complete Violin Sonatas (Bojan Čičić)
It’s beginning to feel a bit like buses with Bojan Čičić: you spend ages thinking how enjoyable it would be...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
COUPERIN Concerts Royaux
Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
CHAUSSON Concert in D major LEKEU Violin Sonata
How to do written justice to the delights here in hand? Artists-wise, this is a first-ever solo album from Quatuor...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
BRAHMS Complete Piano Quartets
This recording of Brahms’s piano quartets featuring the great Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi, now in his 70s, and a trio...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BAKER The Tyranny of Fun
Good things come to those who wait, so the saying goes, and in Richard Baker’s case, it’s been a particularly...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
BAERMANN Clarinet Quintets
Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
MENDELSSOHN Symphonies (Järvi)
These days we no longer need be defensive about the Reformation, trashed by Mendelssohn himself, or the symphony-cantata Lobgesang, once...
Reviewed in issue 05/2024
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate
Which is the most important: the journey or its destination? For Gidon Kremer, whose professional career has spanned over half...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
STRAUSS Josephslegende (Bollon)
Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8 (Haitink)
The obvious question is why it has taken more than 17 years for Haitink’s second recording of Shostakovich’s wartime colossus...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain (Pappano)
Early in his tenure as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano made some very...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3 (Noseda)
This is the third and best release in the ongoing Prokofiev symphony cycle from the LSO and its principal guest...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
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