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BIRTWISTLE Antiphonies. Slow Frieze

Between 1989 and 1999 Harrison Birtwistle completed three operas whose differences encapsulate the formidable extension of range characteristic of his...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2015

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

‘I would almost buy the record just for Fournier,’ wrote Trevor Harvey of Pierre Fournier’s playing on the celebrated 1960...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015

Nicholas McCarthy - Solo

Nicholas McCarthy is unique in music history in being the first person born without a right arm to make a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

Kathryn Stott: Solitaires

Until now, Kathryn Stott’s wide-ranging solo repertoire for BIS has not included French music, although she’s recorded plenty for other...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015

Rarities of Piano Music 2014

As always, ‘Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum’ tickles the fancy, allowing pianists off the leash to delight...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Burtsts of Acclamation - Organ Music and Transcriptions

Although Vaughan Williams and the organ did not enjoy a natural rapport (despite the best efforts of his teachers Walter...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2015

TISHCHENKO Piano Sonatas Nos 7 & 8

At one time touted as the natural successor to Shostakovich – and certainly the main carrier of that torch as...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015

THALBERG Opera Fantasies

Sigismond Thalberg (1812 71) is routinely dismissed as an important composer for the piano. His music glitters and is certainly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

TARTINI Cantabile e suonabile

Giuseppe Tartini was a major 18th-century figure, a violinist-composer who from his base in Padua became one of Europe’s most...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2015

SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze. Variations. Novelette

This is the third of Imogen Cooper’s discs centred around Schumann for Chandos and the first wholly devoted to Robert....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015

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