A Concert for Madame de Sévigné

Eduardo Egüez | Georges Barthel | Marc Hantai | Philippe Pierlot

The Marquise de Sévigné (1625 96) was a 17th-century blogger, writing letters to family and friends about life at the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2015

COUPERIN Suites (Rinaldo Alessandrini)

Rinaldo Alessandrini

It takes a special kind of pedantry to put square brackets round a single-word title on the cover artwork of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2019

Mozart String Quartets, 'Six Haydn Quartets'

Hagen Qt

Mozart’s dedication of six quartet masterpieces to Haydn extends‚ in the hands of the Hagen Quartet‚ to Bartók‚ Janá¶ek and...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No 2. Selected Film Themes. 'A Gathering of Friends'

Anne-Sophie Mutter | Jessica Zhou | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Pablo Sáinz-Villegas | Yo-Yo Ma

‘The Guv’nor’ of movie music is quick to acknowledge those who have inspired him – composers and performers alike –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2022

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 (Currentzis)

You may be inclined to adjust your set from the very opening, and you should: the disc demands a high...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018

Relic: Music for the French Lute

Anders Ericson

Listening to this recording, it is hard to imagine Anders Ericson playing ‘progressive metal’ on the electric guitar – something...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2012

Moriz Rosenthal The Complete HMV Recordings 1934-37

Moriz Rosenthal

The prospect of some 20 hitherto unheard recordings by the legendary Moriz Rosenthal, a pianist admired by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Hugo...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987

Bach Flute Sonatas.

Barthold Kuijken

An entire disc of 18th­century solo flute may look like a bit of a daunting prospect‚ but then not everyone...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 1; Medtner Forgotten Melodies, Set I

Tomás Kramreiter

Medtner's Sonata reminiscenza is not a complete rarity. It was a favourite of Gilels, who recorded it at least twice...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

MOZART Piano Trios KV 502, 542 & 564

Rautio Piano Trio

Mozart’s piano trios don’t come out to play as often as Haydn’s, despite being among his finest chamber works. (Similarly...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016